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Audre Geraldine Lorde est une femme de lettres et poétesse américaine noire, militante féministe, lesbienne, engagée contre le racisme. En tant que poétesse, elle est connue pour sa maîtrise technique et son expression émotionnelle, ainsi que pour ses poèmes exprimant la colère et l'outrage envers les injustices civiles et sociales qu'elle observe tout au long de sa vie. Ses poèmes et sa prose sont centrés sur les questions des droits civiques, le féminisme et l'exploration de l'identité féminine noire. C'est une militante du féminisme intersectionnel. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. février 1934 – 17. novembre 1992
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Audre Lorde: Citations en anglais

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

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Audre Lorde livre The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals, Special Edition, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA, 1997, p. 13.

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

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Source: Our Dead Behind Us: Poems

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

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(1981) Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”

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“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”

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Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Your silence will not protect you.”

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essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive”

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Source: The Black Unicorn: Poems

“… and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.”

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“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side”

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“The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.”

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“Revolution is not a one time event.”

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Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.”

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“For each of us as women, there is a dark place within where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, “Beautiful and tough as chestnut/stanchions against our nightmare of weakness” and of impotence. These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through darkness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling. The woman’s place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.”

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"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

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“Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom.”

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"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Contexte: The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am; and the black mothers in each of us-the poet-whispers in our dreams, I feel therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom.

“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.”

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essay "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House", in Sister Outsider

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect.”

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essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider

“I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.”

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Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.”

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“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose
the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution,
but more usually
we must do battle where we are standing.”

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Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

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