Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
-
-
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
AUDRE LORDE -
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDE -
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
AUDRE LORDE -
Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDE -
We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
AUDRE LORDE -
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDE -
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
AUDRE LORDE -
Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
AUDRE LORDE -
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDE -
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDE -
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDE -
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
AUDRE LORDE -
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
AUDRE LORDE -
Women are powerful and dangerous.
AUDRE LORDE -
I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
AUDRE LORDE






