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.
Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
Every breath I take becomes deeper, and I become more confident of myself without my crutches. The lies I've filled my body and soul with aren't needed anymore. They're not welcome. I choose to live, not just exist.
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.
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