“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.”
Audre Lorde
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“…I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and to share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigating pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk through the rain.”
Audre Lorde
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“Art is not living. It is the use of living.”
Audre Lorde
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“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 taughtto respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.”
Audre Lorde
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“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.”
Audre Lorde
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“Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded…”
Audre Lorde
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“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”
Audre Lorde
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