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.

Quote by Audre Lorde

Topics: Deep Love Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Feelings Quotes, Joy Quotes, Life Quotes

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure...

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure...

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies...

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies...

Your silence will not protect you.

Your silence will not protect you.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to...

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to...

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of...

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of...

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes...

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes...

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever...

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever...

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives...

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives...

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black,...

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black,...

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a...

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a...

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I...

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I...

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have...

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have...

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

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

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

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

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

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the...

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the...

There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for...

There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for...

I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, those...

I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, those...