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Quote by Audre Lorde
Its a struggle but thats why we exist, so that another generation

Its a struggle but thats why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. – 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 taught to respect fear more than ourselves. Weve been taught that silence would save us, but it wont. – Audre Lorde

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

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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didnt eat lunch. – A. N. Wilson

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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. – Henry David Thoreau

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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. – Russell Banks

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