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AUDRE LORDEIt is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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