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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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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