Revolution is not a one time event.
AUDRE LORDEA choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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