You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
AUDRE LORDETo search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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