It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
AUDRE LORDEWe must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
-
-
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.
AUDRE LORDE -
Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
AUDRE LORDE -
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 -
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
AUDRE LORDE -
Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDE -
The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
AUDRE LORDE -
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
AUDRE LORDE -
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
AUDRE LORDE -
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
AUDRE LORDE -
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.
AUDRE LORDE -
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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 -
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
AUDRE LORDE -
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDE -
A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDE