Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
Audre LordeHatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.
Audre LordeI am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
Audre LordeEvery Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
Audre LordeFor each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling
Audre Lorde