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Audre Lorde

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Audre Lorde Quotes

Total quotes: 4

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Audre Lorde

Birthname

Death: November 17, 1992

Educated At: Hunter College, National Autonomous University Of Mexico, Hunter College High School, Columbia University

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Feminist, Librarian, Novelist, Writer, Poet

Total quotes: 4

“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 taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.”

— Audre Lorde, 34 Greatest Quotes About What It Means To Be A Woman

Tagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, voice, Speak Up For Yourself, Fear, Respect, Silence

“becoming dragonfish to survive
the horrors we are living
with tortured lungs
adapting to breathe blood.”

— Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Tagged: perseverance, Trauma, Poetry

“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”

— Audre Lorde, via YouTube

Tagged: Being a woman, Strong Woman, Fearless, Fearless Love

“My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.”

— Audre Lorde, Social Theory: The Multicultural, Global, and Classic Readings

Tagged: Concentration Of Energy, Transparency, Liberation

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