You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
AUDRE LORDEThe more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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