Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEWithout community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEOur feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
AUDRE LORDEWe have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
AUDRE LORDEI have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
AUDRE LORDEYour silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDEThe oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
AUDRE LORDEHopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
AUDRE LORDEDivide and conquer must become define and empower.
AUDRE LORDERevolution is not a one time event.
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.
AUDRE LORDEIf I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEWhen you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
AUDRE LORDEIn the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
AUDRE LORDEI 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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