The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEOut of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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