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To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
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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You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.
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When you are a member of an out-group, and you challenge others with whom you share this outsider position to examine some aspect of their lives that distorts differences between you, then there can be a great deal of pain.
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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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Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.
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So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
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