For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
AUDRE LORDEFor each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDEI have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
AUDRE LORDEI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDEI am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDEThe learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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 LORDEAnger is loaded with information and energy.
AUDRE LORDEWe must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
AUDRE LORDEA choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDEHow hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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 LORDEDark-bright fire lit eyes.
AUDRE LORDEOur feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
AUDRE LORDEI am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
AUDRE LORDESome problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDE