black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

Audre Lorde

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDE

Bed Done Motivational Satisfaction Wake Up Work
Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
AUDRE LORDE

Arena Battle Blessing Choose Manner Revolution Stand
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDE

Black Lives Matter Ideas
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDE

Alive Eat Fantasy Inspirational Myself People Self Respect
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
AUDRE LORDE

Warrior Women Empowerment
Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
AUDRE LORDE

Arise Communication Knowledge Need Oppression Share
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDE

Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
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

Decent Life Live Love Management People Sweet Want Work
I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
AUDRE LORDE

Black Black Lives Matter Corruption Destroy Father Man Power Racism
I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
AUDRE LORDE

Honesty Learning Listen People
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDE

Dismiss Experience Label People Try Used
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDE

Different Feminism Freedom Woman Women Empowerment
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
AUDRE LORDE

Celebration Destruction Difference Growth Live Reason Recognize Work
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
AUDRE LORDE

Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDE

Flesh Hunger Mouth Reason Seek Shape
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDE

Problem Share Women

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Audre Lorde Quotes