Rachel Harper > Rachel's Quotes

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.”
― Robert Hayden

“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
― James Baldwin

“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
― James Baldwin

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde