“As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces- growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying- 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
“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
“The principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else. — 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
“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
[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Survival is not a theory. In what way do I contribute to the subjugation of any part of those who I define… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in… — 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
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