Reads tagged with “Audre Lorde”

Uses of the Erotic: Audre Lorde on the Relationship Between Eros, Creativity, and Power
“There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.”

Favorite Books of 2020
Audre Lorde, Keith Haring, Bruce Lee, chance, love, black holes, constraint as a catalyst of creativity, and a whisper of Whitman.

Grammy Award-Winning Jazz Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant Reads Audre Lorde’s Poignant Poem “The Bees”
A fierce anthem for the alternative to destruction.

Audre Lorde on Kinship Across Difference and the Importance of Unity Within Movements for Equality and Social Change
“How can we use each other’s differences in our common battles for a livable future?”

Audre Lorde on the Indivisibility of Identity and the Importance of Arts Education and Arts Funding
“The shortest statement of philosophy I have is my living, or the word ‘I.’”

Audre Lorde on What to Do When Difference Ruptures Society
“My responsibility is to speak the truth as I feel it, and to attempt to speak it with as much precision and beauty as possible.”

Audre Lorde on Poetry as an Instrument of Change and Feeling as an Antidote to Fearing
“As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas… a safe-house for that difference so necessary to change.”

Favorite Books of 2018
The anatomy of feeling, the science of psychedelics, Ursula K. Le Guin’s final poetry collection, arresting essays by Zadie Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Anne Lamott, and Audre Lorde, a physicist’s lyrical meditation on science and spirituality, and more.

A Burst of Light: Audre Lorde on Turning Fear Into Fire
“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 my ears, my eyes, my noseholes — everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!”

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