We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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