Audre Lorde Quotes About Diversity
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.
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