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
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
… our sons must become men – such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“However, experience has taught us that action in the now is also necessary, always. Our children cannot dream unless they live, they… — 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
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You hear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it… — 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
“The Seventh Sense" Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“see me now your severed daughter laughing our name into echo all the world shall remember ” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those… — 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
Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
