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.
Outsiders always look for a reason to explain why they are not inside. They never look in the mirror. Let's face it, the profession I'm in is a very simple and a very cruel one. There is no way that you can create a career for someone without talent and no way to stop a career of someone with talent.
Patience and shuffle the cards.
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
To reach satisfaction in all_x000D_ _x000D_ desire its possession in nothing,_x000D_ _x000D_ To come to the knowledge of all_x000D_ _x000D_ desire the knowledge of nothing._x000D_ _x000D_ To come to possess all_x000D_ _x000D_ desire the possession of nothing._x000D_ _x000D_ To arrive at being all_x000D_ _x000D_ desire to be nothing.
There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.
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