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Audre Lorde Quotes

Audre Lorde quotes

American Poet February 18, 1934 – January 1, 1992

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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
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
There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists. Audre Lorde
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken. Audre Lorde
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing... But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion. Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde quote: "Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me..."
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. Audre Lorde
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
Audre Lorde quote: "When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no..."
When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. Audre Lorde
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
Audre Lorde quote: "The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the..."
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid... Audre Lorde
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence. Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde quote: "Revolution is not a one time event."
Revolution is not a one time event. Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde quote: "and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that..."
...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength. Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde quote: "I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our..."
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? Audre Lorde
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

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