Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
AUDRE LORDEChange is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
AUDRE LORDEYou are the one that you are looking for.
AUDRE LORDEMy experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
AUDRE LORDEOur feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDEWe must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDEA choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDEThe more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
AUDRE LORDETo search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
AUDRE LORDEI learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
AUDRE LORDEYou cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
AUDRE LORDEWhen you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
AUDRE LORDEOut of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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