"The speaking will get easier and easier. And……" — Audre Lorde
"The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking."
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Audre Lorde
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186 Quotes by Audre Lorde
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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