When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
AUDRE LORDEYou need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
-
-
I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
AUDRE LORDE -
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDE -
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDE -
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDE -
Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
AUDRE LORDE -
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
AUDRE LORDE -
What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
AUDRE LORDE -
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
AUDRE LORDE -
I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
AUDRE LORDE -
I 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.
AUDRE LORDE -
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
AUDRE LORDE -
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDE -
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
AUDRE LORDE -
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
AUDRE LORDE -
We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDE -
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDE -
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
AUDRE LORDE -
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDE -
We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
AUDRE LORDE -
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDE -
If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDE -
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.
AUDRE LORDE -
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
AUDRE LORDE -
I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
AUDRE LORDE -
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDE -
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
AUDRE LORDE