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.
AUDRE LORDEIt does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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