To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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We 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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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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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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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