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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Audre Lorde

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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
Essayist
Feminist
Librarian
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
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I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.
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I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
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I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.
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Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.
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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
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