Audre Lorde Quotes

Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
American Poet
Born: Feb 18, 1934
Died: Nov 17, 1992
Black Each Strength Will Women You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde
Celebrate Differences Our Those Recognize Divide Accept Inability Us
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. Audre Lorde
Myself Strength Me People Other Define Alive Would Would-Be Eaten Fantasies
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. Audre Lorde
Silence Respect Women Speak Fear Those Ourselves Would More Voice Write Terrified Because Were Been Than Taught Us Who Save
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. Audre Lorde
Love Time You Valentines Day Were Forever Each Each Time Deeply
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. Audre Lorde
Me Made Important Believe Must Risk Having Bruised Shared Spoken Over Come Most Verbal Misunderstood Again Even
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. Audre Lorde
Service Strength Vision Important Dare Powerful Becomes Am Afraid Whether Then Use Less
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. Audre Lorde
Words Speak Better Will Our Silent Welcomed Still Heard Afraid
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
Future Change Architecture Vision Fears Before Our Our Lives Dream Only Poetry Lays Never Been Skeleton Across Bridge Foundations Lives
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. Audre Lorde
Joy Psychic Understanding Threat Physical Emotional Shared Sharing Between Intellectual Difference Whether Which Forms Them Much Bridge Basis
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. Audre Lorde
Love Women Black Other Has-Been Habit Tender Study Until Because Becomes How Been Stolen Native Us Each
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. Audre Lorde
Inspirational Nothing Deliberate Am Afraid
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
Work Destruction Living Our Recognize Must Rather Celebration Than Difference Reason Growth
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. Audre Lorde
You Learning Riot Something Like Learning Process Literally Process Incite
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. Audre Lorde
Strength Failure World First Become Lesson Our Define Our World Recognize Must Divide Crucial Academic Reach Beyond Empower Feminists Difference Patriarchal Conquer
Art is not living. It is the use of living. Audre Lorde
Art Living Use
Your silence will not protect you. Audre Lorde
Silence You Will Protect Your
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
Teacher You Woman Yourself Key Mother Black Else Everything Everything Else Someone Piece Because Always Want Dyke Whether Etc Asking Dismiss Need
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. Audre Lorde
Women Lesbian Sleeps Out True She Deals Feminist Whether Ever Consciousness
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. Audre Lorde
Hope Quality Light Live Changes Our Our Lives Those About Direct Bearing Through Which Scrutinize Product Lives Bring
When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. Audre Lorde
Service Strength Vision No Difference Makes Am Afraid Difference Whether Use
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. Audre Lorde
Women Black Other Our Define Recognize Ourselves Rather Attention Within Male Women Are Than Move Common Common Interests Interests Each Compete Programmed
It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it. Audre Lorde
Time People Sex Long Enough Possible Take Know Make Metaphor Survive Personal Going Race Then Teach Multiply Keep Thing
The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. Audre Lorde
Characterized Solutions Instantaneous Heady Were Sixties Belief
You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements. Audre Lorde
You Fighting Live Those Constantly Nest Both Bubbles Know How Surface Repairing Fish Up Blow Egg Eggs Heavy Whole Each Float Floating Keep Elements Each One
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. Audre Lorde
Myself Me Throwing Part Attend Protect Arms Any Hold Your Away Flowering Muscular
But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. Audre Lorde
Racism Black White Society Too Other Recognize Bored About Said Still Hand Person Get Loving Many Each Things
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