All Audre Lorde Quotes
- The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. Incite
- I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? Alone
- In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us. Destroy
- Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed… Any
- The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. Belief
- I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the… Black
- Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic… Absolute
- The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world,… Academic
- 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… Bearing
- But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black… Black
- I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian… Another Piece
- But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into… Different Pieces
- In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than… Black
- It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history,… All
- It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can… Going Long
- There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and… Call
- When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate… Circulate
- You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg… Blow
- I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good,… Duty
- Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. Give
- to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent. Each
- Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless. Ceaseless
- Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and… Call
- It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand. Cherish
- My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made… All