"When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision--then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
I seek no favor untouched by blood.
More Audre Lorde quotes
"I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.......
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
"There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
"If you come as softlyAs wind within the treesYou may hear what I hearSee what sorrow sees.If you come as lightlyAs threading dewI will take you gladly...
"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
"Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy, in the way my body stretch...
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
"If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core...
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us t...
"Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least materi...
"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our worl...
"I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the word poe...
"Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is th...
"I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of...