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Audre Lorde Quotes

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Audre Lorde

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992

Topics

Women Black Attention Within Compete

My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

Megan Fox

World Body Now Everything Left Mine

Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.

Maurice Flanagan

Business Deaf Fraud Airline Who

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

John Steinbeck

Ugly Sick Face Earth True Weak

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

Amy Klobuchar

Daughter Mom Up Taught Public Then

There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.

Smokey Robinson

People Want Out Wonderful Compete

I can be a lazy slob.

Shirley MacLaine

I Can Lazy Slob

Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.

Luca Parmitano

Relationship Food Colleagues Special

Some people trust an insurance company over the government, while others trust the government over insurance companies.

Jared Polis

Trust Government People Insurance

I just have fun on stage. There's nothing premolded out there. I try to always do something different.

Jon Pardi

Fun Have Fun Nothing Try Stage Out

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.

Don Adams

Comedy Wonder Sometimes Got I Wonder

The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Brother Opinion Constitution Create

As you move up a traditional, sort of bureaucratic structure, there's a certain point at which you realize, 'Well, I'm not really on the implementation or execution side - I'm not on the battlefield. I'm an operations person who's overseeing multiple units that are out on the ground doing the job.'

Chris Fussell

Job Doing You Person Execution Out