If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
Audre LordeAnger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.
Audre LordeInstitutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
Audre LordeI have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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