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Audre Lorde — Portrait after a picture by K. Kendall (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Audre Lorde

American writer and feminist activist

1934–1992

19 quotes, most often on Anger, Power and Freedom.

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”, p. 124
- Emotion
We do not have to live the same mistakes over again if we can look at them, learn from them, and build upon them.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Learning from the 60s”
- Experience
- Failure
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Learning from the 60s”
- Change
- Responsibility
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Poetry is Not a Luxury”, p. 37
- Poetry

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