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There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
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New York City
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Audre Geraldine Lorde
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What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.
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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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To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
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I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.
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