Audre LordeThe speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends … ▶372LoveTruth
Audre Lorde...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength. ✨ Audre Lorde (2012). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, … ▶372Sadness
Audre LordeOnce we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of… ▶351Love
Audre LordeI have died too many deaths that were not mine. ✨ Audre Lorde (1995). The Black Unicorn: Poems, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company362Death
Audre LordeBut 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 it, it's the same work, just different pieces of our… ▶351Philosophy
Audre LordeGuilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. ✨ Audre Lorde (2012). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, p.130, Crossing Press<… ▶351Humanity
Audre LordeBecause the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. ✨ Audre Lorde (2012). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, p.42, Crossing Press341Love
Audre LordeWhen I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming … ▶363LifePolitics
Audre LordeThe sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.331Philosophy
Audre LordeArt is not living. It is the use of living. ✨ Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). Conversations with Audre Lorde, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi364Life
Audre LordeOur feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those f… ▶364SadnessTime
Audre LordeFor within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or ple… ▶332HumanityPoliticsThought
Audre LordeI 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, cryptic complaints from the other side ✨ Audre Lord… ▶332Sadness
Audre LordePart of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.321Reflection
Audre Lorde... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, … ▶344HopeLifeThought
Audre LordeThose 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 of difference - those of us who are po… ▶311Humanity
Audre LordeOut of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason. ✨ Audre Lorde (2000). The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, p.59, W. W. Norton & … ▶333Philosophy
Audre LordeIt'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 keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach… ▶333HumanityTime
Audre LordeI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there322Thought
Audre LordeFor women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real conne… ▶378Politics
Audre LordeAnger is loaded with information and energy. ✨ The left needs to take a leaf out of Jesus' book - and get angry by Steven W Thrasher, www.theguardian.com. February 20, … ▶356Reading
Audre LordeHow a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who pays what for speaking. Some words are open. Love is a word another kind of open — As a dia… ▶312Love
Audre LordeI am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.312Sadness
Audre LordeSome women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care. ✨ Audre Lorde (2… ▶378Life
Audre LordeBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosex… ▶356HopeHumanityTime
Audre LordePoetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences o… ▶291HopeLifeThought
Audre LordeBut in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we deal with sameness only, we develop weapons that we use again… ▶324Thought
Audre LordeI am deliberate and afraid of nothing. ✨ Audre Lorde (2000). The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, p.73, W. W. Norton & Company324Truth
Audre LordeI was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. ✨ Audre Lorde (2… ▶335Death
Audre Lordewhat you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority ✨ Audre Lorde (2012). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, p.132, Crossing Press379Love
