Your silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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