Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. — 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
But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The distortion of relationship which says “I disagree with you, so I must destroy you” leaves us as Black people with basically… — 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
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“There is no Black person here who can afford to wait to be led into positive action for survival. Each one of… — 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
“As Black people, if there is one thing we can learn from the 60s, it is how infinitely complex any move for… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“We who are Black are at an extraordinary point of choice within our lives. To refuse to participate in the shaping our… — 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
