Our visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDEOur visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDEI am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDEConstruct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
AUDRE LORDEOut of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDEThe master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDELife is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
AUDRE LORDEWe must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
AUDRE LORDEWe must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDEWhen 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 LORDEHow hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
AUDRE LORDEUnless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDEI have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDEFor women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDEThere are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDEWhat I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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