Your silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDEConstruct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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