And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives.
Audre LordeChange is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
Audre LordeThe strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.
Audre LordeThe speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.
Audre Lorde