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"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."

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

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More Afloat Quotes

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Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely… — David Byrne
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may… — Robert M. Hensel
When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little… — Elbert Hubbard
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your… — Anna Quindlen
Hell's afloat in lover's tears. — Dorothy Parker
Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat. — Angie Martinez
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been… — Benjamin Disraeli
I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where… — Dinaw Mengestu
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or… — Seamus Heaney
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a… — Jack White
Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her.… — Thomas Andrews

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