The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEWe do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDEI have died too many deaths that were not mine.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEOut of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDEMy experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDESometimes 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 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 LORDEI am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEInstitutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
AUDRE LORDEWe have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
AUDRE LORDEI have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDEWe have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
AUDRE LORDEWithout community, there is no liberation.
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