You are the one that you are looking for.
AUDRE LORDEYou are the one that you are looking for.
AUDRE LORDEWherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEI have died too many deaths that were not mine.
AUDRE LORDESome 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
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEWhen 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.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
AUDRE LORDEConstruct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEHow hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
AUDRE LORDECaring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
AUDRE LORDEBut the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDEI 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 LORDEI learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
AUDRE LORDEWithout community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEYou cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
AUDRE LORDE