All Audre Lorde Quotes
- … our sons must become men – such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons… Among
- Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist. Community
- There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others… From
- what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority Anger
- The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams:… Black
- Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men… Action
- . . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but… Already Felt
- Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world. Esteem
- When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. Afraid
- There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives. Issue
- For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light within which we… Action