The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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