All Audre Lorde Quotes
- When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it… Afraid
- It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Accept
- I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at… Acceptance
- I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are… Been
- Our visions begin with our desires. Begin
- I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. Afraid
- Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. Deep Love
- When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether… Afraid
- The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of… Bases
- In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction. Celebration
- The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. Action
- Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. Any
- There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. Black History
- Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. Afloat
- But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. Consciousness
- Your silence will not protect you. Commitment
- Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move… Attention
- Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a… Across
- We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from… Becomes
- Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. Black