To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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 oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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