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 LORDEThere is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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