When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDEIn the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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 a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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