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 LORDEWe must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
-
-
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
AUDRE LORDE -
What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
AUDRE LORDE -
We are all in the process of becoming.
AUDRE LORDE -
I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
AUDRE LORDE -
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
AUDRE LORDE -
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDE -
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDE -
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
AUDRE LORDE -
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDE -
One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
AUDRE LORDE -
It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
AUDRE LORDE -
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
AUDRE LORDE -
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDE -
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
AUDRE LORDE -
Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
AUDRE LORDE






