Audre Lorde

Quotes

• “I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all t...”
• “I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the...”
• “For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in si...”
• “Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus ...”
• “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
• “The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
• “Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”
• “...oppression is as American as apple pie...”
• “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”