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Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil

Lived from: 1934 - 1992

Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 18 february 1934 Died: 17 november 1992

  • Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
  • I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
  • It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

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  • Art is not living. It is the use of living.
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  • Afraid is a country with no exit visas.
    The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (2000) 329
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  • All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
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  • Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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  • Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
    A Burst of Light: and Other Essays (2017) 108
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  • 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.
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  • Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47
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  • Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
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  • But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
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  • But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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  • But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
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  • Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
    A Burst of Light: And Other Essays (2017)
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  • Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111
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  • Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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  • Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.
    A Burst of Light: and Other Essays (2017) 115
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  • Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
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  • Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.
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  • For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 43
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  • For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111
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  • Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1990) 124
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What are the most famous quotes from Audre Lorde?

The two most famous quotes from Audre Lorde are:

  • "Art is not living. It is the use of living."
  • "Afraid is a country with no exit visas."

When did Audre Lorde live?

Audre Lorde was born in 1934 and died in the year 1992.