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Been Quotes by Audre Lorde
- Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to…
- The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.
- I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black…
- I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are…
- Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a…
- We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from…
- [Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through…
- Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles…
- We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
- For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour