|
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of wh... (more Audre Lorde quotes)
| The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde | |
| Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux | |
| Conversations With Audre Lorde (Literary Conversations Series) by Joan Wylie Hall and Audre Lorde |
You can share a link to this page with your friend!