{"author":"Audre Lorde","author_id":"Audre+Lorde","total_quotes":95,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["love","black","study "],"id":23,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"},{"text":"For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["change","civil-rights","discrimination","equality","fear","homophobia","political","prejudice","racism"],"id":5155,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"},{"text":"I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined ... Imposed silence about any area of our lives is a tool for separation and powerlessness.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["cancer","death","feminism","illness","silence"],"id":7460,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"},{"text":"My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["cancer","differences","feminism","illness","silence","speaking-out","truth","women","words"],"id":7740,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"},{"text":"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["growth","living","reason "],"id":8429,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"},{"text":"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.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["service","vision","i am "],"id":23292,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"},{"text":"No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["oppression","patriarchy"],"id":28372,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"},{"text":"When there is no connection at all between people, then anger is a way of bringing them closer together, of making contact. But when there is a great deal of connectedness that is problematic or threatening or unacknowledged, then anger is a way of keeping people separate, of putting distance between us.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["anger","connectedness","relationship"],"id":32099,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"},{"text":"I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["love","naivete","optimism","romance","soul-mate","youth"],"id":39117,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"},{"text":"Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["differences","energy","misguidedness"],"id":45032,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":95,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}