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Within Quotes by Audre Lorde
- 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…
- 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 -…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
- 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…
- 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…
- I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black…
- The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .
- 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…
- Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic…
- 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…
- For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts…
- If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly…
- We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
- ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate…
- The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams:…
- For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light within which we…
More Within Quotes
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. — Arthur Ashe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- There is good and mediocre writing within every genre. — Margaret Atwood
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. — John James Audubon
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
- By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. — Saint Augustine
- I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. — Saint Augustine
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius