If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDETo that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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