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Audre Lorde
Top 10 Audre Lorde Quotes, American
Total Quotes : 43
Inspirational
I Am
Afraid
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
- Audre Lorde
Sexuality
Why
Energizing
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
- Audre Lorde
Love
Valentine's Day
Were
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
- Audre Lorde
Racism
Literary
Imposed
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
- Audre Lorde
Away
Muscular
Attend
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
- Audre Lorde
Racism
Still
Other
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
Celebrate
Divide
Inability
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde
Poetry
Been
Lives
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
Over
Shared
Having
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
Desires
Visions
Our
Our visions begin with our desires.
- Audre Lorde
Move
Other
Compete
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
Art
Living
Use
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
- Audre Lorde
Men
Other
Ties
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
- Audre Lorde
She
Sleeps
Ever
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
- Audre Lorde
Strength
Alive
Other
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
- Audre Lorde
Reason
Living
Celebration
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
Tools
Will
Never
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
- Audre Lorde
Life
Now
Very
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
- Audre Lorde
Love
Study
Tender
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
Young
I Remember
Purely
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
- Audre Lorde
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