When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother's, even remembering how I fought… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things… — 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
“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
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
For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth… — 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
If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I… — 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
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
Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Tell them about how you’re never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there’s always that one little piece inside… — 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
