"When we define ourselves, when I define myself,……" — Audre Lorde
"When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining."
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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 Broadening Quotes
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Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is…
— Rupert Murdoch
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But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a…
— Richard Serra
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The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact,…
— Carl Jung
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The Chinese side stands ready to work with Morocco to consolidate and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and continuously push forward…
— Wu Bangguo
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Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole…
— John T. Scopes
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It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.
— Deborah Eisenberg
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Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of…
— Oswald Chambers
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The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of…
— Rene Cassin
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Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.
— William Arthur Ward
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The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the…
— James A. Baldwin
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What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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