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 1 Share Now -
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. - Audre Lorde 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. - Audre Lorde 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
