"The transformation of silence into language and action……" — Audre Lorde

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of… - Audre Lorde

"The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation ."

— 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 Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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