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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
Librarian
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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Society
Encouraged
Mediocrity
Encourage
Excellence

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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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. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.
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Art is not living. It is the use of living.
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Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
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pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
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There are no honest poems about dead women.
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.
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Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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