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Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

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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Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
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We are powerful because we have survived
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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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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
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The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.
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Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.
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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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Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.
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As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
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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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