For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.
Audre LordeWhen you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
Audre LordeI am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.
Audre LordePain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. ... pain will always either change or stop. Always. ... The confidence that it will change is what makes bearing it possible. So pain is fluid. It is only when you conceive of it as something static that it is unbearable.
Audre Lorde