“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
“and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
“Revolution is not a one time event.”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose
the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution,
but more usually
we must do battle where we are standing.”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)