Revolution is not a one time event.
AUDRE LORDEI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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 do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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