The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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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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