I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDEI am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDEThere are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDEI am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
AUDRE LORDEI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDEI 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 LORDEIf I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEThe more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDEIt does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
AUDRE LORDEYour silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDEYou 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 LORDEWherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
AUDRE LORDEFor women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDEEach time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDEOur visions begin with our desires.
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