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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. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#afraid #am #difference #i #i am

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#house #master #never #tools #will

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. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #common #common interests #compete #define

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#deals #ever #feminist #lesbian #out

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. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

Our visions begin with our desires. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#desires #our #visions

When 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. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#am #becomes #dare #i #i am

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#always #child #her #herself #mother

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#close #each #emotionally #men #other