Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
AUDRE LORDEYou need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
-
-
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDE -
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
AUDRE LORDE -
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
AUDRE LORDE -
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDE -
If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDE -
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDE -
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
AUDRE LORDE -
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
AUDRE LORDE -
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
AUDRE LORDE -
Your silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDE -
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDE -
You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
AUDRE LORDE -
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDE -
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDE -
When 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 LORDE