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Audre Lorde

"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."

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"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."

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Donna Grant

"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

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Donna Grant

"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."

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Donna Grant

"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."

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Donna Grant

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

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Donna Grant

"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."

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Donna Grant

"One believes others will do what he will do to himself."

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Donna Grant

"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."

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Donna Grant

"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."

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Donna Grant

"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."

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Donna Grant

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."

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Audre Lorde
"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
"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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Audre Lorde
"It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again."

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Audre Lorde
"Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests."

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Audre Lorde
"I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?"

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Audre Lorde
"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."

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Audre Lorde
"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."

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Audre Lorde
"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."

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Audre Lorde
"In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men."

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Audre Lorde
"But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women."

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