Women are powerful and dangerous.
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
-
-
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.
AUDRE LORDE -
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
AUDRE LORDE -
Our visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDE -
To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
AUDRE LORDE -
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.
AUDRE LORDE -
You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
AUDRE LORDE -
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
AUDRE LORDE -
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDE -
We are all in the process of becoming.
AUDRE LORDE -
When 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 LORDE -
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDE -
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
AUDRE LORDE -
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
AUDRE LORDE -
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDE -
In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
AUDRE LORDE