"There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions" — Audre Lorde
"There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions"
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Audre Lorde
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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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The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was.…
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic…
— Julie Burchill
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of…
— James Caan
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I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential…
— James Cameron
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There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.
— Tommy Chong
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I've always run by the hierarchy of 'If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If…
— Jon Stewart
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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the…
— Ignatius Loyola
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Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy,…
— Dennis Kucinich
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Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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