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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
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Audre Geraldine Lorde
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling
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I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.
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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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The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .
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When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
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Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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