If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEWe must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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