Audre Lorde Quotes

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

Audre Lorde

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthLightBlackKeyHellLonely

I don't think about taking risks anymore because there aren't any risks to take.

Jim James

RisksThinkTaking RisksTakeTaking

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

John Chamberlain

MeSeeingWillMoreInterestedThan

I'm an NRA-certified Expert Rifleman.

Andy Cohen

Expert

Every country has their problems.

John Malkovich

ProblemsCountryEvery

I am not able to think about this as a job, like work. It's 12 or 13 hours, but for me, it's not working.

Maurizio Sarri

WorkJobI AmMeThinkWorking

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Michael Jackson

MotherPerfectionMeMomShe

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Robert A. Heinlein

ScienceImpossibleDoneEverything

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Roscoe Mitchell

LifeMusicI AmWritingMy Life

Anti-U.S. sentiment has been born out of many grievances - support and weapons for such dictators as Mubarak, unquestionable support for Israel in its occupation of Palestine, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen that kill more civilians than intended targets.

Mona Eltahawy

SupportBornMoreAfghanistanOut

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

Mitch McConnell

PoliticsAmericanPoliticalMeet

One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.

Luke Evans

I AmEffortViewYouPoint Of View

The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011.

Dexter Filkins

CalmEndAmericanLateCountryKind

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