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Audre Lorde Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“I learned so much from listening to people. The only thing I had was honesty and openness.”
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Tagged: Listening To Others, Learning from Others, Honest And Truthful
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”
— Audre Lorde, Conversations with Audre Lorde
Tagged: Pain, hurt, Dealing with Pain, Necessary
“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.”
— Audre Lorde, 34 Greatest Quotes About What It Means To Be A Woman
Tagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, voice, Speak Up For Yourself, Fear, Respect, Silence
“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, The Cancer Journals: Special Edition
Tagged: Courage, strength, Fear, Vision
“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
— Audre Lorde, Friendship Quotes
Tagged: Courage, Words, Speaking Up, Refusing To Stay Silent, Change, Activism, Women, empowerment, feminism, strength
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
— Audre Lorde, 35 Empowering Feminist Quotes from Inspiring Women
Tagged: feminism, sisterhood
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
— Audre Lorde, The Politics of Conspicuous Displays of Self-Care
Tagged: Self-Care, Political Warfare, Politics, Self Care, Loving Yourself, Self-Love, Caring For Yourself, Caring For Myself
“When I live through pain without recognizing it, self-consciously, I rob myself of the power that can come from using that pain, the power to fuel some movement beyond it.”
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches(Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Tagged: The Power Within, The Power That Comes From Pain, Pain and Power, channel your pain, Channel Your Adversity, Victimhood to Victory, Creative Outlets for Pain
“But we have known each other too well in the dark.”
— Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems
Tagged: I Still Love You, Intimacy, Relationship
“Men who are afraid to feel keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly ‘inferior’ capacity to feel deeply. But in this way also, men deny themselves their own essential humanity, becoming trapped in dependency and fear.”
— Audre Lorde, Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response
Tagged: Fuck Boys
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