Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there — 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
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Some of our finest writers, organizers, artists, and scholars in the 60s as well as today, have been lesbian and gay, and… — 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
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is… — 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
