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Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
Essayist
Feminist
Librarian
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Poet
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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Powerful
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What I leave behind has a life of its own.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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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You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.
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I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
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I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
Audre Lorde
It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who pays what for speaking. Some words are open. Love is a word another kind of open — As a diamond comes into a knot of flame I am black because I come from the earth's inside. Take my word for jewel in your open light.
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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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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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