The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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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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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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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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