The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
Interpretation
Using one's strength for a purpose reduces fear.
This quote by Audre Lorde emphasizes that the more we dedicate our abilities and efforts towards fulfilling our personal vision or goals, the less fear we will experience. It suggests that action and commitment can alleviate apprehension, empowering us to pursue our ambitions with confidence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing one's dreams.
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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.
The town of Gauley Bridge stands as a pattern for all those places where people are linked even in the middle of their suffering, where people fight against an evil condition so that other people need not go through the same fight.
No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.
Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.
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