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Other Quotes by Audre Lorde
- Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and…
- Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.
- 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…
- If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
- 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.
- In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
- 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…
- 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…
- I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.
- 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 Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour