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Audre Lorde has 189 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 protest.
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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 love and…
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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 joy, then…
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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in…
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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be…
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our…
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within…
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley…
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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it…
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Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.
— Susie Bright
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My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because…
— Lea DeLaria
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There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because…
— Audre Lorde
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My fear -- and what Ive read and heard -- is that lesbians feel like [The L Word cast] all have long…
— Leisha Hailey
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Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure…
— Del LaGrace Volcano
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February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.
— Thomas Tusser
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Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone…
— Truman Capote
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All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters…
— Dick Van Dyke
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I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much…
— Dick Van Dyke
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As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make…
— Colin Mochrie
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The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with…
— Matthew Sweet
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I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine…
— Matthew Sweet
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