Quotes from Audre Lorde
Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past
— Audre Lorde
Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.
— Audre Lorde
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained.
— Audre Lorde
Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction.
— Audre Lorde
We were like starving women who come to believe that food will cure all present pains, as well as heal all the deficiency sores of long standing.
— Audre Lorde
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
— Audre Lorde
...oppression is as American as apple pie...
— Audre Lorde
I had discovered a new world called voluntary aloneness.
— Audre Lorde
Poetry is not a luxury.
— Audre Lorde
What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
— Audre Lorde
We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.
— Audre Lorde
I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
— Audre Lorde