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.
To me non-violence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people, and, therefore, I am devoting all my energies towards the establishment of a society that should be based on its principles of truth and peace.
Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must become far better informed of the dangers from Washington -- regardless of who wins the Presidency.
I have to make sure that I don't silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of 'What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?' For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I'm in the public eye.
There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.
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