Audre Lorde

"We must learn to use the time we are given wisely, for time is the only currency we cannot earn back."

"The sharing of crisis in a human relationship is an act of profound intimacy."

"To establish sisterhood, we must first acknowledge the ways in which we have been kept apart."

"Each of us carries the capacity to change the world, and we must believe in this capacity in ourselves and others."

"The state of being fully alive is to be fully present to ourselves and our communities."

"We are not obligated to worship anyone; we are only obligated to honor the truth as we see it."

"Work that is pursued only for money will hollow us out from the inside."

"To be alive is to refuse to accept the world as it is presented to us as final."

"The locus of change is always within the sphere of the powerless."

"We cannot dismantle systems of oppression with the same tools they were built with."

"Ignorance is not bliss; it is a cage that keeps us from our full humanity."

"When we dare to love ourselves, we refuse to tolerate abuse from others."

"Our place in each other's lives is sacred and must be honored with care and intention."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"We are expected to apologize for taking up space, for having needs, for being alive."

"Language is a tool, and like all tools, it can be used to build or to destroy."

"There is no single cause. There is no single enemy. There is only the web of systems that hold us captive."

"To love ourselves is to love our legacy, our lineage, our people."

"We are taught to be afraid of the dark, but it is in the darkness that new things grow."

"A free Black woman in this world is a constant challenge to the powers that be."

"We must demand better for ourselves and our children, not because we are special, but because we are human."

"The work of building community is never finished; it is ongoing and requires constant nurturing."

"When we tell the truth, we crack open the possibility of transformation."

"Our anger is a tool, and when wielded with intention, it can cut through denial and create space for change."

"We cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we refuse to see."

"To survive, we must learn to thrive in the spaces between what is and what could be."

"The greatest act of courage is to claim our names in a world that would erase them."

"We are not fragments of ourselves. We are whole, and our wholeness is revolutionary."

"The bonds we create with each other are bonds of survival and of joy."

"To be silent is to consent to our own diminishment."