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 LORDEYou need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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