Best Audrelorde Quotes Today

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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inspirational

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me

& eaTen aLIve.

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advice

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk through the rain.

Audre Lorde

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partie
audrelorde

When we are loved we are afraid love will vanish
when we are alone we are afraid love will never return
and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard not welcome
but when we are silent we are still afraid.

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love

Moon marked and touched by sun
my magic is unwritten
but when the sea turns back
it will leave my shape behind.
I seek no favor
untouched by blood
unrelenting as the curse of love
permanent as my errors
or my pride
I do not mix
love with pity
nor hate with scorn
and if you would know me
look into the entrails of Uranus
where the restless oceans pound.

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poem

“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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life

Men who are afraid to feel keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly ‘inferior’ capacity to feel deeply. But in this way also, men deny themselves their own essential humanity, becoming trapped in dependency and fear.

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feeling