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Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

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
Death
Else
Anything
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Your silence will not protect you.
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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
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I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.
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You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.
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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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... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
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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.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
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Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.
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Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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