Quotes from Audre Lorde
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
- Audre Lorde
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
- Audre Lorde
Poetry is not a luxury.
- 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
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
- Audre Lorde
When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
- Audre Lorde
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
- Audre Lorde
...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.
- Audre Lorde
What I leave behind has a life of its own.
- Audre Lorde
Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.
- Audre Lorde
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
- Audre Lorde
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.
- Audre Lorde