Audre Lorde Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother's, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reassess both our relationship as well as the sources of my knowing.

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Knowing, Mouths

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.139, Crossing Press

• I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Reflection, Secret

• There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Teacher, Keys

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Warrior, Feminist

• I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Honor, Vision

• 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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