In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
AUDRE LORDEDark-bright fire lit eyes.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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