Audre Lorde Quotes

I guess I'm just a natural warrior.

I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

There is something of the warrior in me.

I've been fighting my whole life.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

I see myself as a survivor, and I'm not ashamed to say I'm a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side.

More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.

I've been fighting for a long time.

War made my everyday problems seem much smaller, and when it is hard sometimes, I just remember that it could be much worse.

No matter where I came from, I'm a fighter.

I would fight till I'm dead. This is why I am here. I am put on Earth to fight. I feel it deep in my waters.

No matter the circumstances, just keep battling and keep battling.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising)

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor." "I don't want to survive it." "I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice.

We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.

Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.

A Warrior of the Light cannot always choose his battlefield.

At heart I am a warrior.

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.