The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
When you are a member of an out-group, and you challenge others with whom you share this outsider position to examine some… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light. — Audre Lorde Copy Share
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? — Audre Lorde Copy Share
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
“There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
“I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
“I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share
How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who pays what for speaking. Some… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
