Author: Audre Lorde

Quotes

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.

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

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

- Audre Lorde

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

- 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.

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

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.

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

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

- Audre Lorde

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.

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

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

- Audre Lorde

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

- Audre Lorde

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