We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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