K. Kendall posted a photo:
Spotted this today. I heard Audre say this, and I heard Bernice Johnson Reagon say it, too. I think several smart, savvy women have said this. I believe Audre would be pleased to see this bumper sticker; I wish she could. I miss her.
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What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? 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? Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself — a Black woman warrior poet doing my work — come to ask you, are you doing yours?
And of course I am afraid, because the transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation, and that always seems fraught with danger. But my daughter, when I told her of our topic and my difficulty with it, said, “Tell them about how you’re never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there’s always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don’t speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.”
In the cause of silence, each of us draws the face of her own fear — fear of contempt, of censure, of some judgment, or recognition, of challenge, of annihilation. But most of all, I think, we fear the visibility without which we cannot truly live.
And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength. Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are wasted, while our children are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our safe corners mute as bottles, and we will still be no less afraid.
Taken from Audre Lorde's "The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action".
I believe Sister Outsider should be on every high school reading list.
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6. may 09
"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge"
(Audre Lorde)
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Mean, but it's funny in some demented way.. :P
Found on a Toyota Echo in the parking lot of NKU. :p The map is off by a few hundred feet, but it's close enough. :p
K. Kendall posted a photo:
1980, Austin, TX.
She was one of the most powerful people I ever met: a brave woman and a great poet, one of the finest in the 20th century. This very thoughtful moment occurred in a writing seminar she led, in which I was a participant.
I took it in very poor light with an old Pentax K1000, printed it myself, and have scanned it from the print. I think she would have liked the grittiness of it.
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"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."
~ Audre Lorde ~
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For some music to go with this, try either Enya or Styx ... your choice ....;~)
Have a great day!
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La Lucha Continua (The Struggle Continues), a talking mural by Susan Greene located on 23rd Street between Mission Street and Capp Street, features 35 portraits of activists, philosophers and artists and their recorded voices accessible via cell phone.
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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house - Audre Lorde
Taken @: Nth Fitzroy
Taken With: Nikon D40
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K. Kendall posted a photo:
They led a writing workshop together in Austin, Texas. I was in it, and they let me take this picture of them.
