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.
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus - your abdominal brain - and is brought into your world as a reality.
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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