Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal…

Audre Lorde
173 citations
Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.
Politics
14

More Author Quotes

If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you gladly Nor ask more of you. You may sit beside me … ▶
How 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 diamond comes into a kn … ▶
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. ✨ Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). Conversations with Audre Lorde, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi
Anger 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, 2017.
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. ✨ Audre Lorde (2012). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, p.70, … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes