Sometimes, my source of the quote I want to share with you on Thoughtful Thursdays is written word; it leaps out at me from the page.
Sometimes, it's the once-neglected lyric of a song - it will lazily meander through the air and tug at my ears.
And sometimes, it's a bumper sticker.
A seemingly trivial adornment - but in this case, as in many of my discoveries, it opens yet another door to yet another place that I had no idea existed, up until that very moment.
Sometimes, it's the once-neglected lyric of a song - it will lazily meander through the air and tug at my ears.
And sometimes, it's a bumper sticker.
A seemingly trivial adornment - but in this case, as in many of my discoveries, it opens yet another door to yet another place that I had no idea existed, up until that very moment.
It is synchronicity at its finest.
I caught this at first, just as a glimpse in my peripheral vision. But its words were enough to trigger something quite visceral, and I had to have the Baron edge up towards the car in the next lane, like some cliched 70's TV cop show, as I practically hung halfways out the open passenger window.
"A little closer!"
"Hurry, the light's turned green - they're getting away!"
"I can almost see the author - HURRRRRR-YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY".
With a vroom and a sweet puff of gasoline, away they went, lost in the downtown traffic.
But I found it.
And at a time when I'm starting to finish what seems a lifetime of suppression, here it is.
In all its simplicity and its profundity:
"Your silence will not protect you."
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
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6 comments:
A stronger case I have never heard... for UnSilencing.
Or, silence isn't golden and it will not embolden.
wv: ingular, which means of or relating to the present participle.
How many of us do that! Me especially. I think for me it's avoiding possibly ugly situations. And my silence certainly doesn't protect me!
wv: shichips. I'll just sit here and eat my shichips while I try to teach myself to SPEAK UP!
Silence is too close to acquiescence for me, and acquiescence is how we get things like George W and the Holocaust.
Countess Ti: UnSilencing; easy enough to say, but so much more difficult to articulate.
Countess CBW: Embolden - what a marvelous word!!
Countess TSA: I'm all about the avoidance, too. Not a fan of confrontation. But I'm learning that one can say their piece, and if a blowout ensues, it ensues. It's not always my fault.
Countess FF: Acquiesence - another great word. Not to do, but as a description.
Oh I love Audre Lord...she was gone way to soon.
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