All Audre Lorde Quotes
- I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there Create
- What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face? Cannot See
- The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation . Act
- I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your… Die
- I do not want to be tolerated, or misnamed. I want to be recognized. Funny
- Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Creativity
- If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive Alive
- I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the… Afford
- I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival. Act
- You are the one that you are looking for. Funny
- For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language… Language
- Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and… Any
- The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is… Change
- For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. Existence
- To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society Beyond
- The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival. Been
- My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular… All
- We are powerful because we have survived Funny
- Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on. Care
- Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side. Blips