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.
AUDRE LORDESome 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
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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