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.
More Quotes from Audre Lorde:
But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.Audre Lorde
It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.
Audre Lorde
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.
Audre Lorde
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Audre Lorde
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
Audre Lorde
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
Audre Lorde
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Change Quotes, Future Quotes, Imagination & Visualization Quotes, Literature Quotes, Poetry QuotesBased on Keywords: skeleton
Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?
Russ Carnahan
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
Louise J. Kaplan