If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEIn our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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