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Art is not living. It is the use of living.

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
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
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We are powerful because we have survived
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All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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There are no honest poems about dead women.
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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.
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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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I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.
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... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
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For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
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