We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“We learn to work when we are tired, so we can learn to work when we are afraid.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. For the demands of our released expectations lead us… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“When we admit and deal with difference; when we deal with the deep bitterness; when we deal with the horror of even… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“ A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for my life, however short it… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for my life, however short it… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I write for these women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on… — 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
![“[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through all of those already, in silence, except death. And I remind myself all the time now, that if I were to have been born mute, and had maintained an oath…” quote by Audre Lorde](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/008/audre-lorde-758_born_speaking-is-never-without-fear-of-visibi_2564375.jpg)
