Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
Audre Lordewas an African American writer, feminist, womanist, lesbian, and civil rights activist. As a poet, she is best known for technical mastery and emotional expression, particularly in her poems expressing anger and outrage at civil and social injustices she observed throughout her life. Her poems and prose largely dealt with issues related to civil rights, feminism, and the exploration of black female identity. In relation to white feminists in the United States, Lorde famously said, “the master's tools will...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 February 1934
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Audre Lorde quotes about
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.
I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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.
Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art.
There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.