Audre Lorde on empowerment
Audre Lorde101 quotes“We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.”
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde 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.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde 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.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde 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.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Oppression is as American as apple pie.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Our visions begin with our desires.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Women are powerful and dangerous.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde
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