"It does not pay to cherish symbols when……" — Audre Lorde
"It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand."
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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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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
— John Adams
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is…
— John Quincy Adams
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
— Wendell Berry
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
— Wendell Berry
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
— Barbara Bush
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I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that…
— Wilford Brimley
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the…
— Willa Cather
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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this…
— Cesar Chavez
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The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not…
— Michael Chertoff
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I am poor and feeble, persecuted and vulnerable, Yeshua conquered me, and with the New Man he honored me, He…
— Unknown Author
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With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but…
— Unknown Author
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like…
— Louise Erdrich
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