black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

Audre Lorde

You are the one that you are looking for.
AUDRE LORDE

Healing Inspirational Look One Liner
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
AUDRE LORDE

Decent Life Live Love Management People Sweet Want Work
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
AUDRE LORDE

Angry Energy Information
I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
AUDRE LORDE

Black Gay Hell Loneliness Remember Truth
Sometimes 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 LORDE

Arena Battle Blessing Choose Manner Revolution Stand
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDE

Different Feminism Freedom Woman Women Empowerment
You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
AUDRE LORDE

Believe Fire Motivational Willing Women Empowerment
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDE

Act Believe Care Indulgence Myself Survival
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDE

Alive Eat Fantasy Inspirational Myself People Self Respect
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
AUDRE LORDE

Afford Destroy Each Other Enemy Learning Violence
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDE

Act Action Language Silence Transformation
If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDE

Alter Beginning Die Justice Pain Protest Social
I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
AUDRE LORDE

Honesty Learning Listen People
To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
AUDRE LORDE

Afraid Beyond Myself Power Search Willing
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDE

Beginning Choas Erotic Feeling Measure Sense Strong
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
AUDRE LORDE

Angry Destroy Hatred

My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Audre Lorde Quotes