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

- Audre Lorde

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is pla…

- Audre Lorde

Without community, there is no liberation.

- 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

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

- Audre Lorde

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

- Audre Lorde

You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

- Audre Lorde

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

- Audre Lorde