We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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I 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.
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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 am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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