Audre Lorde Quotes

Most popular Audre Lorde Quotes

Afraid is a country with no exit visas. - Audre Lorde quote.
Afraid is a country with no exit visas.
— Audre Lorde

fear

Anger is loaded with information and energy. - Audre Lorde quote.
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
— Audre Lorde Sister Outsider

anger

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. - Audre Lorde quote.
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
— Audre Lorde
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. - Audre Lorde quote.
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
— Audre Lorde Sister Outsider

self-acceptance

Hatred is a deathwish for the hated, not a lifewish for anything else. - Audre Lorde quote.
Hatred is a deathwish for the hated, not a lifewish for anything else.
— Audre Lorde Sister Outsider

hate

I am a reflection of my mother's secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers. - Audre Lorde quote.
I am a reflection of my mother's secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers.
— Audre Lorde Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

personal mothers and daughters

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, it is deep. - Audre Lorde quote.
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, it is deep.
— Audre Lorde

inspirational women feminism

Our visions are essential to create that which has never been, and we must each learn to use all of who we are to achieve those visions. - Audre Lorde quote.
Our visions are essential to create that which has never been, and we must each learn to use all of who we are to achieve those visions.
— Audre Lorde Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters

vision

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared by them. - Audre Lorde quote.
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared by them.
— Audre Lorde Uses of the Erotic

joy

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.  The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives. - Audre Lorde quote.
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.  The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
— Audre Lorde Sister Outsider

poetry

Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named, and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action. - Audre Lorde quote.
Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named, and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action.
— Audre Lorde Sister Outsider

pain transformation

Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.  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 quote.
Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.  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

suffering