I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDEI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDEI wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
AUDRE LORDEYou need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
AUDRE LORDEI am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
AUDRE LORDEThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEWithout community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEIt does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
AUDRE LORDEIf I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDEChange is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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 LORDENothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
AUDRE LORDEWhenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
AUDRE LORDEOppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDEBut the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEThe more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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