People Quotes by Audre Lorde

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in…

— Audre Lorde

We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own.

— Audre Lorde

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time.…

— Audre Lorde

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

— Audre Lorde

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

— Audre Lorde

I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to…

— Audre Lorde

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage,…

— Audre Lorde

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

— Audre Lorde

You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it…

— Audre Lorde

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such…

— Audre Lorde

Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is…

— Audre Lorde

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians…

— Audre Lorde

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

— Audre Lorde