Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
AUDRE LORDEOppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDEOur feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
AUDRE LORDEWhen we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
AUDRE LORDESome problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDEWe must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
AUDRE LORDEI 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 LORDEI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDEWhen you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
AUDRE LORDECaring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
AUDRE LORDEThere are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDEIf I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
AUDRE LORDEI have died too many deaths that were not mine.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEIt’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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