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Us Quotes by Audre Lorde
- Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
- For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the…
- Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we…
- 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…
- 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…
- Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel…
- For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language…
- 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…
- June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that…
- 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…
- If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal…
- The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never…
- It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
- I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are…
- 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…
- In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
- 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…
- Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no…
- What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle