Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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