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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
Essayist
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New York City
New York
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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.
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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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But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
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Guilt is not a response to anger it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
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... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.
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It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.
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I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.
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