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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.
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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So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
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You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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