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Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)
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Writer and activist Audre Lorde on how self-acceptance reduces the power others have over you:
“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
3-2-1: On Choosing Your Pain, Self-Acceptance, and Seizing Opportunities | James Clear
Writer Audre Lorde on acting in the face of fear:
“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs ... and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.... See more
“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs ... and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.... See more
3-2-1: On simplicity, having good ideas, and acting in the face of fear
Without community, there is no liberation. —AUDRE LORDE
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
As women, we need to examine the ways in which our world can be truly different. I am speaking here of the necessity for reassessing the quality of all the aspects of our lives and of our work, and of how we move toward and through them
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Writer Audre Lorde on facing our challenges:
“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.”
“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.”
James Clear • Highlights From jamesclear.com
So the question arises in my mind, Mary, do you ever really read the work of Black women? Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea concerning some old and distorted connection between us? This is not a rhetorical question.