The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDEI am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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