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.
AUDRE LORDEI am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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