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Each Quotes by Audre Lorde
- For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut…
- Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...
- The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our…
- The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is…
- And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the…
- For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power…
- 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…
- Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
- Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move…
- 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…
- Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
- But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black…
- You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg…
- to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
- And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to…
- I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier…
- 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…
- We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.
- Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.
- We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
More Each Quotes
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not… — Norman Ralph Augustine