"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."

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Source : Audre Lorde (1995). “The Black Unicorn: Poems”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

Audre Lorde

#Honesty Quotes #Silence Quotes #Empowering Quotes

“Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment.”
“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.”
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
“We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.”
“I felt like a deer with a hundred hunters after me.”
“Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.”
“The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply”
“In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.”

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