I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
AUDRE LORDEYou are the one that you are looking for.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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I 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.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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