Quote by Audre Lorde Download Open image ““It's difficult to talk about double messages without having a twin tongue.”” — Audre Lorde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I tried to speak insipidly, yet everything I said seemed to take on a double meaning.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as we speak.” — Turkish proverb Copy Share Image
“We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.” — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
“If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
“She didn't say anything—at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had… — J.X. Burros Copy Share Image
“I’m always impressed by people who can speak another language, two people talking what sounds like utter gibberish, yet making complete sense to each… — Tom Reynolds Copy Share Image
“You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.” — Lily King Copy Share Image
“Once again, she speaks in another language when things get awkward.” — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“You’re unconscious, moron,” my double said to me. “We can finally talk to one another.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Why do we have two ears and one mouth? In order to talk half as much as we listen.” — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
