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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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Domestic wiretaps, government television cameras blanketing our streets, spy drones by the thousands flying over our heads. It makes you wonder if the very foundation of this great country, which is liberty, is eroding right before our eyes.
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I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.
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I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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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.
