I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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