It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
-
-
We are all in the process of becoming.
AUDRE LORDE -
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 and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
AUDRE LORDE -
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
AUDRE LORDE -
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDE -
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 -
Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDE -
A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDE -
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
AUDRE LORDE -
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
AUDRE LORDE -
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDE -
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDE -
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDE -
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
AUDRE LORDE -
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDE