Audre Lorde Quotes about Life

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

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

Audre Lorde

Life, Reality, Done

Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Audre Lorde

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.73, W. W. Norton & Company

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.

Audre Lorde

Life, Dream, Skeletons

Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.38, Crossing Press