For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I heard my old friend Clem’s voice coming back to me through the dimness of thirty years: “I see you coming here… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces- growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying- and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The move to render the presence of lesbians and gay men invisible in the intricate fabric of Black existence and survival is… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage,… — 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
... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“In the 60s, political correctness became not a guideline for living, but a new set of shackles. A small and vocal part… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Survival is not a theory. In what way do I contribute to the subjugation of any part of those who I define… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in… — 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
“ 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
We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“And I find I must remember that the pain is not its own reason for being. It is a part of living.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of… — 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)
