What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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