Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded…
—Audre Lorde
Topics: Victory
When I care 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
Topics: Vision
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
—Audre Lorde
Topics: Ideas
While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.
—Audre Lorde
Topics: Anxiety, Fear
Revolution is not a onetime event.
—Audre Lorde
Topics: Revolution
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
—Audre Lorde
Topics: Feelings
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
—Audre Lorde
Topics: Fear
I am still learning—how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
—Audre Lorde
Topics: Being True to Yourself
Our visions begin with our desires.
—Audre Lorde
Topics: Desire
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
Topics: Friendship
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Rita Mae Brown American Writer, Feminist
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman American Feminist, Writer
- Alice Walker American Novelist, Activist
- Angela Davis American Political Activist
- Susan Sontag American Writer, Philosopher
- Helen Gurley Brown American Publisher
- Allen Ginsberg American Poet
- Marilyn French American Feminist Author
- Kate Millet American Feminist, Writer, Sculptor
- Muriel Rukeyser American Poet
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