Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.ħ. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Guilt is not a response to anger it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language.Ħ. I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.ĥ.
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.Ĥ. It is not our differences that divide us. 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.ģ. If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.Ģ. Lorde was noted for eloquent prose, which is why her quotes are widely shared as motivation and inspiration to us all. Virgin Islands and changed her name to Gamba Adisa, meaning “she who makes her meaning clear.” Lorde battled cancer for 14 years and during the last years of her life, she moved to the U.S. Lorde is best known for her works during her battle with breast cancer, The Cancer Journals. Lorde’s groundbreaking poetry was captured in her books: First Cities and From a Land Where Other People Live, but it was perhaps her books on issues of identity and concerns about global issues, New York Head Shop and Museum, Coal and The Black Unicorn that gained her the most attention. Must Read: Is Michelle Obama A ‘Feminist Nightmare’?
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