More quotes by Audre Lorde

"I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes--everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor!"
"...oppression is as American as apple pie..."
"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."
"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge."
"Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people."