"Life is very short and what we have……" — Audre Lorde

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"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now."

— Audre Lorde

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186 Quotes by Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde has 186 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social…
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot…
Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel…
I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my…
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these…
Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either…
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from…
There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a…
Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and…
It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is…

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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