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

Other quotes by Audre Lorde

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. – Audre Lorde

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Women
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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. – Audre Lorde

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

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parenting
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Fear
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Those who own much have much to fear. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Fear

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. – Richard Bach

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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

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While we are postponing, life speeds by. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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These messengers will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night. – Herodotus

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