I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
AUDRE LORDEThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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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 erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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