“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 love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for… — 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
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has… — 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
When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage,… — 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
“Each one of us had been starved for love for so long that we wanted to believe that love, once found, was… — 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
“ 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
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
“The very word erotic comes from the Greek word eros, the personification of love in all its aspects - born of Chaos,… — 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
