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.
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 started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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 am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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