Women are powerful and dangerous.
AUDRE LORDEI have died too many deaths that were not mine.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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