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One 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…
- There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece…
- Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
- I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to…
- The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have…
- I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the…
- You are the one that you are looking for.
- Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I…
- 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…
- Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
- Revolution is not a one time event.
- I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying…
- Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants…
- Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then…
- 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…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt