"I am a reflection of my mother’s secret……" — Audre Lorde
"I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers"
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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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More Angers Quotes
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one of 42 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.
— Elizabeth Kenny
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What I don’t like are arrogant people. We’re all equal. I don’t like it when a person assumes to be…
— Selena
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
— Socrates
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An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.
— Mason Cooley
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As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend…
— Elizabeth Kenny
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When a man angers you, he conquers you.
— Toni Morrison
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During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or…
— Nelson Mandela
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The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge…
— Sunitha Krishnan
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The person that angers you most, teaches you best
— Geoff Thompson
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As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations.…
— Frederick Lenz
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a…
— Cameron Sinclair
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All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail…
— Carly Fiorina
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