All Audre Lorde Quotes
- 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
- And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to… Cry
- If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive. Cannot Love
- I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines. Best
- There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your… Another Kind
- Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no… Alone
- [Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through… All
- What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once… Accept
- Without community, there is no liberation. Change
- For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts… Adjuncts
- ...oppression is as American as apple pie... American
- Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. Absolute
- Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. Emotional
- Revolution is not a one time event. Event
- Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason. Flesh
- Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles… Academic