Anger is loaded with information and energy.
AUDRE LORDEI have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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