The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

More Quotes by Audre Lorde

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

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

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.

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.