"And this is a grave responsibility, projected from……" — Audre Lorde
"And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe."
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186 Quotes by Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde has 186 quotes on this site.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social…
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot…
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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel…
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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my…
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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these…
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either…
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from…
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a…
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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and…
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