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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction. — Audre Lorde

Poetry is not a luxury. — Audre Lorde

If I do not bring all of who I am to whatever I do, then I bring nothing, or nothing of lasting worth, for I have withheld my essence. — Audre Lorde

When the desire for definition, self or otherwise, comes out of a desire for limitation rather than a desire for expansion, no true face can emerge. — Audre Lorde

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago ... — Audre Lorde

Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul. — 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

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. — Lorde

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures. — Audre Lorde

Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness ... — Audre Lorde

Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women. — Audre Lorde

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say. — Lorde

Dark-bright fire lit eyes — Audre Lorde

Art is not living. It is the use of living. — Audre Lorde

Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed. — Lorde

I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night. — Lorde

If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive. — Audre Lorde

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy. — Audre Lorde

Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever. — Audre Lorde

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives — Audre Lorde

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage. — Audre Lorde

It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. — Audre Lorde

The cockroach
who 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

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough. — Audre Lorde

Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry. — Lorde

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation . — Audre Lorde

You can not take down the master's house with the master's tools
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I cannot recall the words of my first poem but I remember a promise I made my pen never to leave it lying in somebody else's blood. — Audre Lorde

Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world. — Audre Lorde

Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief. — Audre Lorde

Silence has never brought us anything of worth. — Audre Lorde

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it. — Audre Lorde

Everyone's competing for a love they won't receive. — Lorde

I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun. — Lorde

I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation. — Lorde

We learn to work when we are tired, so we can learn to work when we are afraid. — Audre Lorde

We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love. — Audre Lorde

...oppression is as American as apple pie... — Audre Lorde

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature. — Audre Lorde

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. — Lorde

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. — Audre Lorde

Women are powerful and dangerous. — 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

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you? — Audre Lorde

I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren. — Lorde

The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference ... — Audre Lorde

Glory and gore go hand in hand. — Lorde

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose. — Audre Lorde

Some of our finest writers, organizers, artists, and scholars in the 60s as well as today, have been lesbian and gay, and history will bear me out. — Audre Lorde

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on. — 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

Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls. — Lorde

And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength. — Audre Lorde

In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair. — Audre Lorde

I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all. — Lorde

Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side. — Audre Lorde

Don't you think that is boring how people talk — Lorde

I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen. — Lorde

I do not want to be tolerated, or misnamed. I want to be recognized. — Audre Lorde

I feel, therefore I can be free. — Audre Lorde

If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough. — 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

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars. — Audre Lorde

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible. — Audre Lorde

Maybe the internet raised us, or maybe people are jerks. — Lorde

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else. — Audre Lorde

A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also. — John Gower

My fear of anger taught me nothing. — Audre Lorde

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival. — Audre Lorde

I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show. — Lorde

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. — Audre Lorde

The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. — Audre Lorde

Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art. — 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

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively. — Lorde

If I ever really sounded
I would rupture
your eardrums
or your heart. — Audre Lorde

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house — Audre Lorde

Let me be your ruler, you can call me queen bee. — Lorde

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. — Audre Lorde

And nothing's wrong when nothing's true
But I live in a hologram with you. — 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

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change. — Audre Lorde

What I leave behind has a life of its own. — Audre Lorde

Without community, there is no liberation. — Audre Lorde

We've been talking about Lorde like crazy! She's amazing! — Gabriel Mann

I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe. — Lorde

I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand. — 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

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. — Audre Lorde

I have died too many deaths
that were not mine. — Audre Lorde