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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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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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'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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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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Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
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Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.
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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
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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.
