Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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I 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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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