Quotes About Audre Lorde

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.

Mary, do you ever really read the work of Black women? Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea concerning some old and distorted connection between us? This is not a rhetorical question.

We were like starving women who come to believe that food will cure all present pains, as well as heal all the deficiency sores of long standing.

We have been taught to suspect this resource, vilified, abused, and devalued within western society.

this action was a kind of shift from safety towards self-preservation. It was a choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.