Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
Audre LordeWe must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.
Audre LordeAs a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.
Audre LordeWhen you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
Audre LordeInstitutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.
Audre Lorde