Audre Lorde

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. ”

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. ”

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. ”

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. ”

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. ”

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community. ”

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. ”

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. ”

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. ”

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. ”