We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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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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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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