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I am very, very happy for Alice Walker. (Audre Lorde)
Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom. View quote
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. View quote
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and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive. View quote
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive. View quote
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves. View quote
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I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it. View quote
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When patriarchy dismisses us, it encourages our murderers. View quote
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Audre Lorde

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Photo: K. Kendall, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Writer
Born: February 18, 1934
Died: November 17, 1992
Quotes count: 108
Wikipedia: Audre Lorde

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