If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDENothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
AUDRE LORDEI am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
AUDRE LORDEHopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
AUDRE LORDEMy experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEThere is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
AUDRE LORDEI wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
AUDRE LORDEI remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
AUDRE LORDEI am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
AUDRE LORDEInstitutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
AUDRE LORDEI have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDEI have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
AUDRE LORDEA choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDEPain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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.
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