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All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
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
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So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
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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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It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.
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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.
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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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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.
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