I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
AUDRE LORDEYou 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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