Audre Lorde Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

  Audre Lorde

  Dancing, Creative, Erotic

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.55, Crossing Press

• The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

  Audre Lorde

  Self, Silence, Action

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.42, Crossing Press

• For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

  Audre Lorde

  Luxury, Silence, Waiting

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.44, Crossing Press

• ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

  Audre Lorde

  Dream, Names, Ideas

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.37, Crossing Press

• For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

  Audre Lorde

  Truth, Writing, Language

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.43, Crossing Press

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