To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
AUDRE LORDETo search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
AUDRE LORDEThe master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDEI have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
AUDRE LORDEThe true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
AUDRE LORDEWhat you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
AUDRE LORDEWe recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
AUDRE LORDEOur visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDEWhen 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.
AUDRE LORDESome problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDEI want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
AUDRE LORDEYou need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
AUDRE LORDEWe do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDEThe oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
AUDRE LORDEI am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
AUDRE LORDEInstitutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
AUDRE LORDEI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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