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Audre Lorde

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Nasihat

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

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Kreativitas

Perbedaan harus tidak hanya ditoleransi, tetapi dilihat sebagai dana dari polaritas yang diperlukan di mana kreativitas kita dapat memicu.

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Kebahagiaan

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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Motivasi

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.

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Kreativitas

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

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Nasihat

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.

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Keberanian

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.

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Kehidupan

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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Harapan

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

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Kehidupan

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

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Pendidikan

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

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Pendidikan

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

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Keluarga

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

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Keluarga

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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Mimpi

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

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Keberanian

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

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Pendidikan

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.

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Nasihat

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

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Kehidupan

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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Cinta

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

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