Quotes from Audre Lorde

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

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.

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.

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction.

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.

...oppression is as American as apple pie...

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Poetry is not a luxury.

I had discovered a new world called voluntary aloneness.

We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and self-respect we can require no less of ourselves.