You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
AUDRE LORDEWhat I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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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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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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