Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our… — 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
“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
“ 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
“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
... 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
“Nobody was dreaming about me. Nobody was even studying me except as something to wipe out.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid... — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But… — 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
I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity 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 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
