There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDEHow hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
AUDRE LORDEAnger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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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.
AUDRE LORDEYou 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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
AUDRE LORDETo search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDEWe do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
AUDRE LORDEThe Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
AUDRE LORDEYou need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEIf I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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.
AUDRE LORDEIf 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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Your silence will not protect you.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
AUDRE LORDEYou are the one that you are looking for.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
AUDRE LORDEI am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
AUDRE LORDELife is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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