Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.
Interpretation
Embracing uncertainty strengthens our determination to live fully in each moment.
In this quote, Audre Lorde emphasizes the importance of confronting uncertainties in life with resilience. Instead of allowing these uncertainties to diminish our spirit or inhibit our actions, she advocates for a proactive approach to life, urging us to leave a lasting impression on each day we live, fully engaging with our experiences rather than holding back.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech about overcoming lifeβs challenges.
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.
If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active process. It's not passive. I mean hearing is passive in that soundwaves hinge upon the eardrum. You can do both. You can focus and be receptive to your surroundings. If you're tuned out, then you're not in contact with your surroundings. You have to process what you hear. Hearing and listening are not the same thing.
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.
If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.
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