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Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
Essayist
Feminist
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University Teacher
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New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.
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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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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
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Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.
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Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.
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Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
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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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Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.
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When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
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Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.
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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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Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.
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For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.
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