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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.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Academic Become Beyond Conquer Crucial Define Difference Divide Empower Failure Feminists First Lesson Must Our Our World Patriarchal Reach Recognize Strength World

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

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Incite Learning Learning Process Like Literally Process Riot Something You

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Art is not living. It is the use of living.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Art Living Use

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Afraid Am Deliberate Nothing I Am

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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Done Life Must Now Short Very

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

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Afraid Am Difference Makes No Difference Service Strength Use Vision Whether I Am

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There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Always Asking Because Black Dismiss Else Etc Everything Everything Else Key Mother Need Piece Someone Teacher Want Whether Woman You Yourself

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Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: About Any Black Circles Condemned Destructive Imposed Literary Outside Pale Quality Racism Silences Step Supposed Total Whatever Who Write Writers

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It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Enough Going Keep Know Long Make Metaphor Multiply People Personal Possible Race Sex Survive Take Teach Then Thing Time

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In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Destroy Giving In Other Words Myth Other Sameness Think Us Which Words Would I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 18th, 1934

Died: November 17th, 1992

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