I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
AUDRE LORDEConstruct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
-
-
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDE -
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
AUDRE LORDE -
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDE -
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
AUDRE LORDE -
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
AUDRE LORDE -
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
AUDRE LORDE -
When 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 LORDE -
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDE -
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
AUDRE LORDE -
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDE -
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
AUDRE LORDE -
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDE -
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.
AUDRE LORDE -
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDE -
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDE