We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDEWhat I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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