Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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 believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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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 have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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