Audre Lorde

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies…

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we…

Art is not living. It is the use of living…

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have…

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my…

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing…

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot…

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues…

It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of…

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure…

There’s always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself – whether it’s Black, woman…

Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives…

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is…

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever…

I can’t really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing…