Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDESome problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
AUDRE LORDEWe are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
AUDRE LORDECaring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
AUDRE LORDEA choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDEWhat I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEOppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDEI am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDEDivide and conquer must become define and empower.
AUDRE LORDEThe oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
AUDRE LORDEPoetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
AUDRE LORDEBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
AUDRE LORDEWherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEWe recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
AUDRE LORDE