The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDEI am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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.
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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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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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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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