I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
AUDRE LORDEI am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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