We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDEI am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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I 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.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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