We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
AUDRE LORDEThe Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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 am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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