I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.Audre Lorde
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.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.Audre Lorde
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.Audre Lorde
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older – know that survival is not an academic skill.Audre Lorde
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.Audre Lorde
Revolution is not a one time event.Audre Lorde
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.Audre Lorde
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.Audre Lorde
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.Audre Lorde