Audre Lorde Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.”

“There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything 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 sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.”

“When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.”

“You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.”

“There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.”

“But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.”

“Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.”

“Art is not living. It is the use of living.”