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Differences 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…
- Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
- But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we…
- If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal…
- It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
- The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of…
- In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
- The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world,…
- My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made…
- Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
- 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…
- The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences…
- It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures,…
- For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will…
- Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.
More Differences Quotes
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because… — Chinua Achebe
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I… — Drew Barrymore
- I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and… — Charlie Chaplin
- People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is… — Mary Kay Ash
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo
- There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between… — Francis Bacon