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I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
Essayist
Feminist
Librarian
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University Teacher
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New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
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What I leave behind has a life of its own.
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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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I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out.
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... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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