The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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 find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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