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Upon Quotes by Audre Lorde
- I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me -…
- We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love…
- What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?
- 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…
- The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we…
- 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…
- The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we…
- Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.
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- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood