Audre Lorde Quotes
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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Open borders drive wages down for the black community.
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We're all sinners, every one of us. We've all done things we wish we hadn't.
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
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How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
