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.
AUDRE LORDEAnger is loaded with information and energy.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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