Audre Lorde

The Seventh Sense" Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea ↗

— Audre Lorde

#inspirational

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#contradictions #harmony #keep #learning #live

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#arms #attend #away #flowering #hold

In 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 Lorde

#destruction #difference #growth #living #must

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#ideas #making #new #new ideas #new ways

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#celebrate #differences #divide #inability #our

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. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #common #common interests #compete #define

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#close #each #emotionally #men #other

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#house #master #never #tools #will

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#better #heard #our #silent #speak