“You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of...” — Audre Lorde Quote

“You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.”

“Your silence will not protect you.”

“Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.”

“There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.”

“Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.”

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

“I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.”

“We cannot continue to blow up the federal deficit and place our children and grandchildren in greater debt to countries like China.”

“I knew 'Ojuelegba' was a good song, but I didn't expect it to blow up the way that it did.”

“I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.”

“A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.”

“If you get taken out after 20 minutes it's a big blow to you.”