Audre Lorde Quotes

I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.

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• Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wife

• You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Job
  • You
  • Show

• In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

  

  Quintilian
  • Experience
  • More
  • Precept

• Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Quality

• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Politics

• There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Want
  • Science
  • Project

• I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Now

• Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Know
  • End
  • Presidential

• We are all fools when one wise man appears.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wise

• Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • People
  • Free
  • Value

• The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Up

• I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be loved.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Truth
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• Monsieur … I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• Unless we are free from fear we will not be able to give our children the kind of future that we would like them to have.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Children
  • Future
  • Free

• I remember being young in the backseat when my grandma would take me to school, and I would be literally singing and belting out Tina Turner at 3 years old.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • School
  • Singing
  • I Remember

• Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Car
  • Sports

• I would like to own a dog in the future. I think it would be a big step for me in the rehabilitation process.

  

  Michael Vick
  • Thinking
  • Process
  • Would

• I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

  

  Paul Erdos
  • Beautiful
  • Numbers

• I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Drug