For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength. — 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
Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not… — 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
“DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and… — 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
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
![“. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all…” quote by Audre Lorde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/330/audre-lorde-758_erotic_o-nce-we-begin-to-feel-deeply-all-the-as_1130884.jpg)
