Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
AUDRE LORDEAnger is loaded with information and energy.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Poetry 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.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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I 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.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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