Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.
Interpretation
Express your thoughts and feelings openly and immediately, without delay.
Audre Lorde's quote emphasizes the importance of communicating authentically and without hesitation. It suggests that waiting too long to express oneself can lead to missed opportunities and regrets, urging individuals to speak their truth while they still can.
In practice
In a motivational speech about seizing opportunities.
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.
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
I think when you give, that's probably the highest form of living. It's better than almost any feeling you could think of. It's way better than scoring touchdowns to me.
My mom showed me how important it is to surround yourself with opportunities and make the most of them.
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