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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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University Teacher
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New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.
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Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.
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It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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