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 LORDEOur feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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I 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.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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