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.
AUDRE LORDEWhat I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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