Audre Lorde

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

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.

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

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

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.