All Audre Lorde Quotes
- So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive. Better
- Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I… Ask
- The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. Boundaries
- June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that… All
- And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the… Convenient
- Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. Accept
- For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power… Connection
- But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we… All
- Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are… Carved
- Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify… Backs
- I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . . Ago
- I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black… Been
- The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . . Absence
- If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal… American
- The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never… Agitation
- We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not. All
- I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the… All
- My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that… Anger
- The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we… Already Felt
- If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. Alive