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

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...

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives....

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives....

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the...

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between 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.

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties...

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties...

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 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.

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...

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...

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

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

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

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with...

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with...

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are...

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are...

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But...

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But...

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...

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...

Our visions begin with our desires.

Our visions begin with our desires.

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...

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the...

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the...