"Each of us is here now because in one way or another we share a commitment to language and to the power of language, and to the reclaiming of that language which has been made to work against us. In the transformation of silence into language and action, it is vitally necessary for each one of us to establish or examine her function in that transformation and to recognize her role as vital within that transformation."
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Audre Lorde, : Essays and Speeches |date=1984 |publisher=Crossing Press |isbn=978-0-89594-142-8 |page=43}}
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