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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.
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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 would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
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Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.
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Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
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I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
Audre Lorde
Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side
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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
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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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Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.
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Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
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It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.
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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.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Poetry is not a luxury.
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We are powerful because we have survived
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