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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“ 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
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? — 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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. — 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
