We are all in the process of becoming.
AUDRE LORDEPain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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