When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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 is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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You 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.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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 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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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