Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEWithout community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEMy experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEA choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDEI am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
AUDRE LORDEYour silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDEThe master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDEWhat I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
AUDRE LORDEWe are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
AUDRE LORDENothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
AUDRE LORDEUnless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDEOut of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDEAnger is loaded with information and energy.
AUDRE LORDETomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDEI 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 LORDEIn our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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