Audre Lorde Quotes about Waiting

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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 final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

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 final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Audre Lorde

Luxury, Silence, Waiting

Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.44, Crossing Press

Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

Audre Lorde

Waiting, Sides

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

Audre Lorde

Stars, Opposites, Waiting

Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.318, W. W. Norton & Company

Audre Lorde Quotes about Waiting

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