Audre lorde quotes self care

BLFF grupp | Feb 18, 2023

Happy Birthday to the late Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison, two legendary Black women who reshaped our understanding of gender and race through their writing and activism. Audre Lorde’s body of work includes Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) and The Cancer Journals (1980), and Toni Morrison’s includes Song of Solomon (1977), The Bluest Eye (1970), and Beloved (1987) which won her a pris Prize in 1988.  In honor of Lorde and Morrison’s legacies, here are a few of our favorite quotes from these influential trailblazers.

Audre Lorde

• “Caring for myself fryst vatten not self-indulgence. It fryst vatten self-preservation, and that fryst vatten an act of political warfare.”
• “I am not free while any woman fryst vatten unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
• “There are no new ideas, just new ways of giving those ideas we cherish breath a
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Around this time last year, on one of the many difficult personal days of the hellscape that was 2020, I walked through my door to find meticulously placed notes around my home. Handwritten reminders drawn onto shirtless photos of whatever celebs I was crushing on at the moment — Michael B. Jordan, of course, and embarrassingly, the character Wade Kinsella from Hart of Dixie (in my defense, I had just finished a binge of the series) — were waiting for me. Each photo had a different prompt: MBJ was in my bedroom encouraging me to sleep while Wade was hanging out on my fridge. 

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“Don’t forget to eat!” was written in a thought bubble over a smirking Wade. A couple of my girlfriends (one who lived across the street and had a set of keys to my place) had stocked my fridge and left the notes out of concern because in my most anxious and stressed-out state, basic things like sleeping and eating become afterthoughts. Forget “self-care,” I was barely f

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12 Audre Lorde Quotes That'll Spark Conversation

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On the female bond

“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival," Lorde wrote in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches.

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On celebrating diversity

“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction," Lorde told Claudia Tate in Black Women Writers at Work.

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On unity

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On speaking up

“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain. The intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk through the rain," Lorde wrote in The Transformation of Silence i