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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
Hatred
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Death
Else
Anything
Life
Forgiveness
Hated

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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.
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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
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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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But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.
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Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.
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