There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.
Audre LordeI remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
Audre LordeIn our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Audre LordeThe oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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 Lorde