Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.
Interpretation
True fulfillment comes from being authentic and aligning with one's vision for the world.
Audre Lorde emphasizes the importance of authenticity and self-awareness in achieving personal fulfillment. By asserting that one's identity and actions must align with their inner vision, she highlights the connection between self-acceptance and the realization of one's aspirations for a better world.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-acceptance and personal growth.
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.
A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.
With wealth comes responsibility.
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.
If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.
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