The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDEA choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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