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Poetry is not a luxury.
— Audre Lorde
I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago ...
— Audre Lorde
Stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.
— Audre Lorde
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
— Audre Lorde
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
— Audre Lorde
Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
— Audre Lorde
Tenses are a way of ordering the chaos around time.
— Audre Lorde
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
— Audre Lorde
Dark-bright fire lit eyes
— Audre Lorde
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
— Audre Lorde
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
— Audre Lorde
We have been taught to suspect this resource, vilified, abused, and devalued within western society.
— Audre Lorde
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
— Audre Lorde
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
— Audre Lorde
How much of this truth can I bear to see and still liveunblinded?
How much of this pain
can I use? — Audre Lorde
It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
— Audre Lorde
The cockroachwho is dying
and the woman
who is blind
agree
not to notice
each other's shame. — Audre Lorde
If you don't define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive
— Audre Lorde
I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?
— Audre Lorde
I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.
— Audre Lorde
...oppression is as American as apple pie...
— Audre Lorde
Women are powerful and dangerous.
— Audre Lorde
Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
— Audre Lorde
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
— Audre Lorde
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
— Audre Lorde
I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.
— Audre Lorde
There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not lead single issue lives.
— Audre Lorde
There are many kinds of open ... Love is a word, another kind of open ... Take my word for jewel in your open light.
— Audre Lorde
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
— Audre Lorde
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
— Audre Lorde
How are you practicing what you preach - whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening?
— Audre Lorde
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
— Audre Lorde
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
— Audre Lorde
I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.
— Audre Lorde
I feel, therefore I can be free.
— Audre Lorde
What I leave behind has a life of its own.
— Audre Lorde
Without community, there is no liberation.
— Audre Lorde
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
— Audre Lorde
Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.
— Audre Lorde
I have died too many deathsthat were not mine. — Audre Lorde
I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
— Audre Lorde
Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.
— Audre Lorde
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
— Audre Lorde
I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.
— Audre Lorde
In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
— Audre Lorde
My fear of anger taught me nothing.
— Audre Lorde
The difference between poetry and rhetoricis being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde
We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position
but our own. — Audre Lorde
And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.
— Audre Lorde
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
— Audre Lorde
Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
— Audre Lorde
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
— Audre Lorde
Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.
— Audre Lorde
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
— Audre Lorde
Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.
— Audre Lorde
When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
— Audre Lorde
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
— Audre Lorde