Our visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDEThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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 not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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