Audre Lorde Quotes

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?

Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it.

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

I am very public about my love for the people in my life, whether they are girls or boys.

Being honest to who I am led me to write 'If Our Love Is Wrong,' and that allowed me to fully realize the direction I should be heading to - human nature, real emotions, and issues about LGBT.

Language is very important to me.

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.

To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

Find your Light; They can't love you if they can't see you

Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

The name of a person you love is more than language.

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be.

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

Language is a finding place, not a hiding place.

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another. In the past I've had successful relationships with men, and now I'm in this successful relationship with a woman. When it comes to love I am totally open. And I don't want to be put into a category, as in "I'm this" or "I'm that."