Audre Lorde Survival Quotations

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

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.