Women are powerful and dangerous.
AUDRE LORDEWhen 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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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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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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