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Audre Lorde Quotes: I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
         

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.


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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
         



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