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 LORDESometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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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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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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