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.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all in the process of becoming.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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