What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.

— Audre Lorde

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?

— Audre Lorde

When I dare 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

When I dare 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

When I dare 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

When I dare 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

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether I am afraid.

— Audre Lorde

When there is no connection at all between people, then anger is a way of bringing them closer together, of making contact. But when there is a great deal of connectedness that is problematic or threatening or unacknowledged, then anger is a way of keeping people separate, of putting distance between us.

— Audre Lorde

When we admit and deal with difference; when we deal with the deep bitterness; when we deal with the horror of even our different nightmares; when we turn them and look at them, it’s like looking at death: hard but possible. If you look at it directly without embracing it, then there is much less that you can ever be made to fear.

— Audre Lorde

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

— Audre Lorde