The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
AUDRE LORDEThe learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
AUDRE LORDEWhat I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
AUDRE LORDEThe more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDEI am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
AUDRE LORDENothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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.
AUDRE LORDEI am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
AUDRE LORDEWhenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
AUDRE LORDEWhen times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
AUDRE LORDEIt is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
AUDRE LORDEWhat you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
AUDRE LORDEIf I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDEWomen are powerful and dangerous.
AUDRE LORDEWe recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
AUDRE LORDEThe Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
AUDRE LORDESome problems we share as women, some we do not.
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