The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDEWhen 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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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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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.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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