“My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I’m going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.”
"The Uses of Anger"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
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Audre Lorde 72
writer and activist 1934–1992Related quotes
“there's no clarity.
there was never meant to be clarity.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
"Suspended Animation (Part 5)" https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032650/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/1524/suspended-animation-part-5 (2011) (original emphasis)
“Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out.”
The Artist's Way (1992)
Context: Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
It Pains Me, Halpert, Julie, 2009-04-30, Newsweek, 2009-05-23 http://www.newsweek.com/id/195551,
“… The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.”
Source: The Vampire's Assistant
Alan Macfarlane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Macfarlane|, Professor Emeritus of King's College, Cambridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_College,_Cambridge.
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Source: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 4, “Lowell Academy”, p. 55
“From the beginning of time,
in childhood, I thought
that pain meant
I was not loved.
It meant I loved.”
Source: "First Memory", Ararat (1990)