The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDEI have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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 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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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