The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDEWe do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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