Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
AUDRE LORDETomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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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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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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