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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

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I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. Weve been taught that silence would save us, but it wont. – Audre Lorde

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Fear
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Theres always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself – whether its Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. – because thats the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. – Audre Lorde

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teacher
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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. – Audre Lorde

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Truth
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I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing. – Lianne La Havas

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strength

Chicagos neighborhoods have always been this citys greatest strength. – Jane Byrne

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway

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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that were damned if were going to show. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. – Harriet Braiker

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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement — in a word, with more renunciation than you care for — and so you flee the contagion. – Victor Hugo

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