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The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
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Your silence will not protect you.
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... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
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There are no honest poems about dead women.
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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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