Audre Lorde Quotes About Guilt

Quotes about: Guilt

• 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

• Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

  Audre Lorde

  Communication, Ignorance, Names

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

• Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

  Audre Lorde

  Guilt, Action, Response

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

• Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

  Audre Lorde

  Wall, Guilt, Bricks

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.124, Crossing Press

• Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

  Audre Lorde

  Guilt, Way, Action

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

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