Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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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 powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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