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Audre Lorde

"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."

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"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."

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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."

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"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."

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"The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength."

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"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."

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"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."

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"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."

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"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."

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"As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great."

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"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."

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"But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society."
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"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction."
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"It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again."
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"Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests."
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"I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?"
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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."
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"Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism."
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"You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements."
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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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