We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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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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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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 remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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