"There are no new ideas. There are only……" — Audre Lorde
"There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt."
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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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More Black History Quotes
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
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You must change in order to survive.
— Pearl Bailey
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I do consider myself part of black history.
— Mary J. Blige
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain…
— Muhammad Ali
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your…
— Ralph Abernathy
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
— Maya Angelou
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is…
— Maya Angelou
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I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning…
— Mo Rocca
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They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.
— Rush Limbaugh
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the…
— Lynn Swann
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Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel…
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