Audre Lorde Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

• Our visions begin with our desires.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Vision, Desire

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

  Audre Lorde

  Love You, Creativity, Missing

• Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

  Audre Lorde

  Life, Dream, Skeletons

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.38, Crossing Press

• Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.

  Audre Lorde

  Keys, Feelings, Vision

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.

  Audre Lorde

  Vision, Use

• Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.

  Audre Lorde

  Self Esteem, Who I Am, Vision

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black feminists and lesbians is represented. What this says about the vision of this conference is sad, in a country where racism, sexism and homophobia are inseparable. . . .

  Audre Lorde

  Country, Heterosexuality Is, Racism

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.110, Crossing Press

• 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

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