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World Quotes by Audre Lorde
- 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…
- The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .
- The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world,…
- 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…
- If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we…
- 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,…
- Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men…
- Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- 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
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach