It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
AUDRE LORDEMy experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
-
-
I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
AUDRE LORDE -
In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
AUDRE LORDE -
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDE -
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
AUDRE LORDE -
When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
AUDRE LORDE -
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
AUDRE LORDE -
We 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 LORDE -
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDE -
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
AUDRE LORDE -
I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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 -
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 -
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
AUDRE LORDE -
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.
AUDRE LORDE -
Your silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDE