Audre Lorde

"We can work together as a community, affirming that each of us has gifts and significant contributions to make."

"Love is a practice."

"Uses of the erotic as power and information in our quest within ourselves for power."

"I write for those women for whom I know I am not enough."

"Every woman has a well-stocked toolbox she can draw upon for her power."

"As we examine and reexamine our lives and our world, we must continuously check our thinking and assumptions."

"If I could love you half the way you love me, my life would be blessed."

"In the transformation of silence into language and action lies a possibility."

"We are the ones we have been waiting for."

"Your children will know your struggles. Make sure they know your triumphs too."

"The personal is political."

"I exist as I am, that is enough."

"Racism, the belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance."

"We were always full of power, only we didn't know it."

"This time, like a turning point, must be faced fearlessly and whole."

"I am my grandmother's granddaughter. I carry her gifts into the world."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

"Hope is a thing with feathers."

"The most important thing is that we do not simply accept or leave unquestioned the messages we are given."

"We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid just as we have learned to work and speak in all the other emotions of daily necessity."

"The future of our planet concerns me deeply."

"Once I accept the existence of God, it requires God to be infinitely creative."

"Black women's existences were not meant to be believed in or understood."

"We must be willing to examine our assumptions about what it means to be a woman."

"Knowledge itself is power."

"I teach to learn, and I perform to understand."

"Deep peace never comes from avoiding danger or pain."

"To be complete, we need others."

"Every woman is her mother's daughter."

"We must learn to live together as sisters, or we will perish together as fools."