I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all in the process of becoming.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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You 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.
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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 am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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