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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

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
Everyone
Best
Lend
Conceive
Belonging
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Tomorrow
Joy
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Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.
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... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
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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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I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.
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I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.
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The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
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