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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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I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
— Charles Hamilton Aide
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In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming…
— Adolf Hitler
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I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
— Cillian Murphy
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A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
— Bess Truman
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I love queers as much as the next guy, I just don't think I should have to sit beside them on public…
— Zach Braff
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In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play…
— Jacques Rogge
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I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been;…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one…
— Rod Taylor
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Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing…
— Patrick Süskind
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If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you…
— Audre Lorde
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A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar,…
— Maya Angelou
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And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.
— Edith Wharton
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