Best quotes by Audre Lorde on Women

Checkout quotes by Audre Lorde on Women

  • 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.
    - Audre Lorde
  • I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
    - Audre Lorde
  • Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
    - Audre Lorde
  • In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
    - Audre Lorde
  • Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
    - Audre Lorde
  • But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
    - Audre Lorde
  • 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.
    - Audre Lorde