Survival Quotes by Audre Lorde

11 Survival quotes by Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde’s eleven powerful lines on survival speak to strength, identity, and resistance. Her voice turns everyday endurance into a bold affirmation.

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The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been…

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“and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are…

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Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things…

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My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to…

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But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where…

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To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities…

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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our…

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... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within…

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Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged…

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“Survival is not a theory. In what way do I contribute to the subjugation of any part of those who I define…

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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…

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There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light.

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Your silence will not protect you.

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I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

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“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…

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the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray…

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“There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not…

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What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day…

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I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in…

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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change,…

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“I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you…

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

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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much…

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