The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEPain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon 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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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