Audre Lorde on afraid
Audre Lorde101 quotes“The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.”
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You 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 LordeAudre Lorde The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde 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.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde 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.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Oppression is as American as apple pie.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Our visions begin with our desires.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Women are powerful and dangerous.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde
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AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.
Kylia JaneKylia Jane Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
OshoOsho Don’t be afraid to take your time to give your heart to someone worthy.
Lily DiazLily Diaz Don’t be afraid of making mistakes, be afraid of not even trying.
Abel StarcAbel Starc I’m not afraid to die.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Look at yourself in the mirror and don’t be afraid to notice how beautiful you are.
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