World Quotes by Audre Lorde

11 World quotes by Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde’s words cut straight to the core of identity and power, and in this brief selection she turns that focus to the World. The quotes are a compact burst of her fierce clarity, inviting readers to feel the weight of her insight.

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Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.

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“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

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The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .

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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson.…

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My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I…

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It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as…

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If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a…

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For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that…

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African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in…

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

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Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of…

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