If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEIf I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEEach time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDEI learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
AUDRE LORDEIt’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 LORDEWe are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
AUDRE LORDEThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEPoetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
AUDRE LORDEWhat I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
AUDRE LORDEHow hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
AUDRE LORDEIf I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDEYou are the one that you are looking for.
AUDRE LORDEYou need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
AUDRE LORDEI have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
AUDRE LORDEThe master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDEI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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