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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

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
Casualty
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So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other.
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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. And in order to survive they must let go. This is what mothers teach — love, survival — that is, self-definition and letting go.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.
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... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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.
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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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To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
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Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women.
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What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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