Your silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDEI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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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 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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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