Duty Quote by Audre Lorde

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

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

Your silence will not protect you.

— Audre Lorde

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

— Audre Lorde

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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