"In our work and in our living, we……" — Audre Lorde
"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction."
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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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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab…
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on…
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It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part…
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I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my…
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or…
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
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