All Audre Lorde Quotes
- I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board,… Act
- Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must… Able
- The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. Beginnings
- I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier… Admitting
- I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying… Aspect
- We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives All
- If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly… Ask
- We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. Been
- The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences… Attempt
- I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and… Anxious
- If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we… Core
- ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate… Action
- There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. Inspirational
- Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants… Day
- Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. Anyway Whether
- I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you? Cannot Shut
- Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then… Action
- What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and… Attempt
- It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures,… All
- If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does… Able