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R9eEoV2y: “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
Ivorryaa86: “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
Ivaannns87: “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
Gaavrille66: “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
kendaalls106: “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
hawzhin_azeez: On the profound wisdom of Audre Lorde and the notion that marginalised groups and communities can never achieve full freedom so long as others suffer because we essentially are repressed by the same system of capitalist, patriarchal violence.
goodnatureart: Your silence will not protect you.
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bjgesteland: Your silence will not protect you.
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JamaalVelazque5: “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
BringingLight1: Your silence will not protect you.
- Audre Lorde
monendrakapur: Your silence will not protect you. - Audre Lorde
lakenaf114: “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
Shinyobjects3: Your silence will not protect you.
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VVIP_Azat25: “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
joelhfernandes: 7. "Self-care is not a one-time event, it's a lifelong practice." - Audre Lorde
8."Self-care is not a trend, it's a lifestyle." - Akiroq Brost
Morgan_J_Talty: Go read some Audre Lorde this week.
Drism82: Your silence will not protect you.- Audre Lorde
How Much Silence is Too Much?
"As much as anyone else, I fantasize about checking out. I would love to remove the pinging notifications from my days, for my mind to wander without being thrown askew by each incoming tweet.
NYUStudentLink: Celebrating Women's History Month
"Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy."
― Audre Lorde
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AndrewC83526429: “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
tara_taylor: I always love stumbling upon this quote by Audre Lorde:
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.
LBiggie16: Audre Lorde said "Revolution is not a one time event." It is a process of change that occurs when people decide transformations are needed, & starting doing that work on a personal level. Meaning as working on themselves, in their relationships, families, workplaces & more
lillibzz: I read one Audre Lorde article and my life is changed.
Palvashits: ◦ edward said on the discomfort he experienced about his given name and surname from his memoir, out of place.
◦ audre lorde describes writing her name diagonally on her notebook in school before getting in trouble. from her biomythography, zami: a new spelling of my name.
andre_twit1: “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
KakakNyaBijak: “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
them: "Lorde’s work spoke to me because much of it spoke to healing the anger I carried as a queer Black person."
Gplastrik: Audre Lorde isn't pulling punches here. Whew. Poetry is power.
Have you read this one?
jamesjonesesq: If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
― Audre Lorde
TrainingMindful: “Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever – only, nothing is eternal.” ~ Audre Lorde
SLU_Official: The registration deadline for the Second Annual Audre Lorde Scholars Women's Symposium is today! Join us Saturday, April 1, at the Chaifetz School of Business for presentations, workshops, and speakers.
sacharjaishome: Video description: Me in a gray hoodie and black vest against a backdrop of stars and the aurora borealis. I'm narrating a spoken word poem, then there's a series of Black people who have died that appear on the screen as the voice of Audre Lorde speaks the following line:
Danicca34: “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
cesarmvm: Did she really paraphrase Audre Lorde in a tweet ???
Deandraa38: “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
JeanetteJoy: “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.” - Audre Lorde
JualanMasker: “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
Peata846372: “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
bhutan9999: “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
Anniek121: I took an unplanned 3-hour "nap" and am now up at 5am, but just discovered this gem of a 1986 SF State poetry reading with Pat Parker and Audre Lorde (thanks to the Queer Love in History instagram account)
MantabAnjeng: “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
jaggersq93: “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
SalamBuatHaters: “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
Kempsqaa105: “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
Judiths124: “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
Safwannn188: “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
angryblaqwoman: Audre Lorde on self care
BillySwanson7: “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
quotableque: "Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.”
-Audre Lorde
ChvdHaegen: "yes wholeheartedly", disponishions are downing at last, for the propensity to elevate of "civilizationS" to the pinnacle of human achievement"
ichigooookai: “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
caaatinside: “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
SofiaBoyd20: “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
alexanikolas__: If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre Lorde
andre_twit1: “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
A9Collective: "I want to speak about anger, my anger, and what I have learned from my travels through its dominions.
Everything can be used / except what is wasteful / (you will need / to remember this when you are accused of destruction’)."
- Audre Lorde
A9Collective: "I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. " - Audre Lorde
A9Collective: "I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. " - Audre Lorde
ebonyabsolutely: Audre Lorde on Why Difference Is The Key For Progressive Movements
fivedirections: "We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit."
- Audre Lorde
shengokai: Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Wendell - The Rejected Body
Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception, The Visible and the Invisible
Sullivan - Transactional Bodies
Audre Lorde, Maria Lugones, Linda Alcoff, Kristie Dotson, Ida B Wells - their whole bibliography
Orethebrave: when Audre lorde said, “the love of women healed me”, felt it inner mi soul.
YangKapanKita: “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
SoSowemimo: "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare." - Audre Lorde
How have we ended up here?
globalsoctheory: LORDE, Audre Audre Lorde, the daughter of immigrants from the West Indies, was an American poet and writer.
_dnxw: tapping into bell hooks, audre lorde, & toni morrison as a black woman will shift your whole perspective on how to navigate LOVE, sisterhood, ancestry, and the foundations of our womanhood
camero57: “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
poclitbot: where there is no food my eyes are always hungry and remembering however the image enters its force remains.
Audre Lorde, Afterimages
alexanikolas__: I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde
czaerra: a reminder (source:
Lolly_Lyn: “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
Seezen184: “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
GordonTredgold: What I care to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision--then it becomes less and less important whether am afraid. - Audre Lorde
meticu6lous: And if that ain’t the truth. But I’m realizing more and more, the importance of Audre Lorde’s words, your silence will not protect you.
chelseansavage: “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
Hitomo10446: “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
zola_ellen: Revisiting Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider in my mid 30’s has been the most cathartic and revelatory experience. Every word, a slow drip.
chippygee: “u are really just a police officer with an Audre Lorde tee-shirt”.
Danayla36: “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
FarhanVVIP04: 342.“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
MenyimpanRasa: “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
AirdropGarudaX: “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
SevenDeviled: "If you call yourself an “abolitionist” but revel in punitive approaches to justice (“cancelling,” throwing folks away, etc.)—u are really just a police officer with an Audre Lorde tee-shirt."
ThandoMlambo: For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the
quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and
change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. - Audre Lorde
deathstyles: YOOOOO ALICE WALKER, AUDRE LORDE, DOROTHY ALLISON, ADRIENNE RICH, HONOR MOORE??????????
deathnography: Sometimes Representation Matters can lead to a situation where Christie Blatchford shares space with Audre Lorde and Rosa Luxemburg
poclitbot: seeking a now that can breed
futures
like bread in our children’s mouths
so their dreams will not reflect
the death of ours
Audre Lorde, Litany for Survival
EnpEndo: “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
lempongfc: “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
senorhettler: Have you read Audre Lorde’s essay The Uses Of Anger: Women Responding to Racism?
neurodismal: "The severe abstinence of the ascetic becomes the ruling obsession. And it is one not of self-discipline but of self-abnegation." -Audre Lorde
ModSevenBlog: “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
FAIRIEMAlD: cr: heaven by mieko karawai & the selected works of audre lorde
thiscepot2: “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
UnionSeminary: James Baldwin & Audre Lorde: revolutionaries whose legacies remain a touchstone for the work of liberation. In this Union Course, Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad explores these two as icons who illuminate Buddhist teachings & provide context for our lived realities.
leryslaura: "Poetry is not a luxury, it is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action."
Audre Lorde
hunterbtco: “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
LibrarianRad: I am who the world and I have never seen before.
Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journal
utanarchist: With "Black Lives MAGA" trending, I'll quote the inimitable Audre Lorde: “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
VVIP_Azat24: “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
