Audre Lorde Literature Quotations

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

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.