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Audre Lorde on Valentine's Day

1934–1992 United States

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Narcissism comes not out of self-love but out of self-hatred.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever
Only, nothing is eternal.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

Homophobia: The fear of feelings of love for members of one’s own sex and therefore the hatred of those feelings in others.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

Heterosexism: The belief in the inherent superiority of one pattern of loving and thereby its right to dominance.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

Survival is the greatest gift of love.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Audre Lorde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.