Audre Lorde

"Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever."

- Audre Lorde

"I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined...imposed silence about any area of our lives is a tool for separation and powerlessness."

- Audre Lorde

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

- Audre Lorde

"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."

- Audre Lorde

"The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival."

- Audre Lorde

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

- Audre Lorde

""I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.""

- Audre Lorde

"My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you."

- Audre Lorde

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

- Audre Lorde

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."

- 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 we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."

- 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

"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."

- Audre Lorde

"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

"Your silence will not protect you."

- 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

"I am the sun and moon and forever hungry, the sharpened edge where day and night shall meet and not be one."

- Audre Lorde

"I am the sun and Moon and forever hungry, the sharpened edge where day and night shall meet and not be one."

- Audre Lorde

"We are pow­er­ful because we have sur­vived, and that is what it is all about- sur­vival and growth."

- Audre Lorde

"Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me."

- Audre Lorde

"We are powerful because we have survived."

- Audre Lorde

"Next time, ask ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare."

- Audre Lorde

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

- Audre Lorde

"I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival."

- Audre Lorde

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation."

- Audre Lorde

"I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival."

- Audre Lorde

"Self-love isn't selfish; it's self-preservation."

- Audre Lorde

"Self-love isn’t selfish; it’s self-preservation."

- Audre Lorde

"Self-care is not a luxury. It is a necessity. Your well-being matters."

- Audre Lorde

"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed, but when we are silent we are still afraid, so it is better to speak."

- 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