For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as… — 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
Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . . — 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
