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Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil

Lived from: 1934 - 1992

Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 18 february 1934 Died: 17 november 1992

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  • Revolution is not a one time event.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 1984
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  • Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.
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  • Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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  • Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.
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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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  • The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 98
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  • The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
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  • The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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  • The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
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  • The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
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  • The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
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  • The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 77
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  • The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.
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  • There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
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  • There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.
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  • There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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  • There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions.
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  • We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 31
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  • We are powerful because we have survived.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 139
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  • We have too often been expected to speak
    all things to all people and speak everyone else's position
    but our own.
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