When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
AUDRE LORDERevolution is not a one time event.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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 wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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