Quotes by : Audre Lorde

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live,....

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women....

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage,....

Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences,....

I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too....

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads....

Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You hear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy....