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Your silence will not protect you.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
Essayist
Feminist
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University Teacher
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New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.
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So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.
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