We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
AUDRE LORDEI am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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 must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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