Poetry Quote by Audre Lorde — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for my life, however short it might be, priorities and omissions became strongly etched in a merciless light and what I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I”

“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.”

“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language.”

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

“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.”

“beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.”

“But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.”

“The eye--it cannot choose but see;”

“When you were sleeping on the sofa”

“Otherwise”

“All a poet can do today is warn.”