"The erotic is a measure between the beginnings……" — Audre Lorde
"The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings."
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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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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
— Russell Baker
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Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
— William Throsby Bridges
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
— A. S. Byatt
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I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs…
— Paula Abdul
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Good seasons start with good beginnings.
— Sparky Anderson
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
— Thomas Paine
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
— Aberjhani
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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies…
— Louise Erdrich
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a…
— Blaise Pascal
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Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new…
— Amby Burfoot
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New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
— Laozi
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