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
AUDRE LORDEIn our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I 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.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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