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 LORDEDivide and conquer must become define and empower.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
-
-
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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 -
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.
AUDRE LORDE -
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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 -
It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
AUDRE LORDE -
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDE -
Our visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDE -
We 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 LORDE -
We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
AUDRE LORDE -
Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDE -
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.
AUDRE LORDE -
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDE -
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDE -
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
AUDRE LORDE






