"Unless one lives and loves in the trenches,……" — Audre Lorde
"Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless."
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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 Ceaseless Quotes
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
— John Berger
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May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb…
— Winston Churchill
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You left , and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles…
— Abraham Flexner
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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit…
— William J. Brennan
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... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue…
— Albert Einstein
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Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless…
— Lewis Carroll
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Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
— Louise Brooks
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