Audre Lorde Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.

  Audre Lorde

  Choices, Creative, Tree

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press

• I am Black because I come from the earth's inside
  now take my word for jewel in the open light.

  Audre Lorde

  Light, Jewels, Black

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

• If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you gladly Nor ask more of you. You may sit beside me Silent as a breath Only those who stay dead Shall remember death. And if you come I will be silent Nor speak harsh words to you. I will not ask you why, now. Or how, or what you do. We shall sit here, softly Beneath two different years And the rich earth between us Shall drink our tears.

  Audre Lorde

  Years, Wind, Two

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

• African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in that we see ourselves as a part of a life force; we are joined, for instance, to the air, to the earth. We are part of the whole-life process. We live in accordance with, in a kind of correspondence with the rest of the world as a whole. And therefore living becomes an experience, rather than a problem, no matter how bad or how painful it may be.

  Audre Lorde

  Philosophy, Oneness, Air

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name". Book by Audre Lorde, 1982.

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