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Language Quotes by Audre Lorde
- When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered,…
- The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
- For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language…
- ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate…
- For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that…
- For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light within which we…
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