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I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

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
Walker
Walkers
Alice
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And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.
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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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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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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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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Art is not living. It is the use of living.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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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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To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.
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