Audre lorde quotes self care

BLFF Team | Feb 18, 2023

Happy Birthday to the late Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison, two legendary Black women who reshaped our understanding of gender and race through their writing and activism. Audre Lorde’s body of work includes Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) and The Cancer Journals (1980), and Toni Morrison’s includes Song of Solomon (1977), The Bluest Eye (1970), and Beloved (1987) which won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1988.  In honor of Lorde and Morrison’s legacies, here are a few of our favorite quotes from these influential trailblazers.

Audre Lorde

• “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
• “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
• “There are no new ideas, just new ways of giving those ideas we cherish breath and power in our own living.”
• “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
• “You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.”

Toni Morrison

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  Audre Lorde > Quotes

  “I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language."
  
  I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever.
  
  Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end.
  
  And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may nev

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