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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
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New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.
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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, 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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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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I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black feminists and lesbians is represented. What this says about the vision of this conference is sad, in a country where racism, sexism and homophobia are inseparable. . . .
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.
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It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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