Audre Lorde Quotes

…and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

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.

Self-care is not about self-indulgence, it is about self-preservation.

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

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

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.