Quotes from 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
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
- Audre Lorde
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
- Audre Lorde
Women are powerful and dangerous.
- Audre Lorde
Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.
- Audre Lorde
But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
- Audre Lorde
what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
- Audre Lorde
Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.
- Audre Lorde
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
- Audre Lorde
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
- 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