When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture. -Audre Lorde Women
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. -Audre Lorde Strength
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
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 Women
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community. -Audre Lorde Parenting
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 Failure
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 Strength
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. -Audre Lorde Women
It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. -Audre Lorde History
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
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 Fear
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
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. -Audre Lorde Women
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 Women
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 Architecture
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. -Audre Lorde Learning
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
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
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
