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Audre Lorde strength

Audre Lorde | strength

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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Audre Lorde strength

Audre Lorde | strength

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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Audre Lorde strength

Audre Lorde | strength

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

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Audre Lorde society

Audre Lorde | society

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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Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde | respect

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.

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Audre Lorde poetry

Audre Lorde | poetry

Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

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Audre Lorde parenting

Audre Lorde | parenting

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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Audre Lorde learning

Audre Lorde | learning

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

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Audre Lorde learning

Audre Lorde | learning

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

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Audre Lorde inspirational

Audre Lorde | inspirational

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

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