AUDRE LORDE QUOTE ABOUT SELF CARE

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”

“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”

“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves.”

“Your silence will not protect you.”

“Revolution is not a one-time event.”

“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.”

“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

“We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language.”

“I am my best work – a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.”

“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.”

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.” QUOTES ABOUT BEING CAUTIOUS WITH YOUR HEART

“Liberation is not the private province of any one particular group.”

“Your silence will not protect you.”

“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain.”

“Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.”

“If I had not been informed of the terms of my oppression, I would not have been able to resist.”

“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.”

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

“I am a black feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.”

“Our silence will not save us.”

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”