Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
AUDRE LORDEI believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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