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“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.”

Audre Lorde

essay "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House", in Sister Outsider

“Without community, there is no liberation.”

Audre Lorde

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

Audre Lorde

Source: Our Dead Behind Us: Poems

“Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom.”

Audre Lorde

"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Context: The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am; and the black mothers in each of us-the poet-whispers in our dreams, I feel therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom.

“… oppression is as American as apple pie…”

Audre Lorde

“Your silence will not protect you.”

Audre Lorde

essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.”

Audre Lorde

“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”

Audre Lorde

“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side”

Audre Lorde

“For each of us as women, there is a dark place within where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, “Beautiful and tough as chestnut/stanchions against our nightmare of weakness” and of impotence. These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through darkness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling. The woman’s place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.”

Audre Lorde

"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

“to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.”

Audre Lorde

“Revolution is not a one time event.”

Audre Lorde

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”

Audre Lorde

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

Audre Lorde book The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals, Special Edition, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA, 1997, p. 13.

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

Audre Lorde

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

Audre Lorde

(1981) Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”

“The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.”

Audre Lorde