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Quote by Audre Lorde
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not hav

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, 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. – Audre Lorde

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Society
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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. – Audre Lorde

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Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. – Fernando Flores

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Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Id make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list. – Kristen Wiig

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There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. – Sir Thomas Browne

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