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

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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. – Audre Lorde

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Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. – James Hastings

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What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia – something that resists rapid change. – Simon Travaglia

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The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you. – Terry Bradshaw

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And thats my one fear: that everything has happened nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. – J. G. Ballard

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Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily. – Gwendolyn Bennett

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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following ones nose, taking shortcuts. – Italo Calvino

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If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness. – Tori Amos

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I dont believe your soul mate has to share your politics. – Rachel Weisz

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