Audre Lorde, from "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" (1981)
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Two-Part Workshop: Surviving Technology - Creating Spiritual and Energetic Safety
Who thought surviving technology would be a cultural crisis? In the early days of this thing that we call the World Wide Web, I was deep into my most committed and intense period of mental, emotional, spiritual, and energetic awareness and development. To be fully transparent, I couldn’t do much outside of my work at the Urban League, meditation, Reiki, meals, and sleep. I remember booting up my…
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Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
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A Litany for Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1995)
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Audre Lorde Feminist Quote t-shirt by purgatoryltd
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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 you have it.
Audre Lorde
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
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May I never lose that terror that keeps me brave.
Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems; “Solstice”
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Audre Lorde, from “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” (1981) [ID in ALT]
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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 you have it.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
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"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare."
Audre Lorde.
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The body needs to create too. Beware feeling you're not good enough to deserve it. Beware feeling you're too good to need it. Beware all the hatred you've stored up inside you, and the locks tender places.
Audre Lorde, from a letter to Pat Parker featured in Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde & Pat Parker,
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