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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
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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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Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.
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I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?
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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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