In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Quote by Audre Lorde

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Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part...

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part...

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our...

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our...

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...

Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel...

Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel...

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...

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies...

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies...

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be...

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be...

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...

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues:...

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues:...

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

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

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is...

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is...

Your silence will not protect you.

Your silence will not protect you.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

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...

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

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

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we...

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we...

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of...

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of...

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history....

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history....

When they turn the pages of history, when these days have passed long ago-- will...

When they turn the pages of history, when these days have passed long ago-- will...