Quote by Audre Lorde
Art is not living. It is the use of living. - Audre Lorde

Art is not living. It is the use of living. – Audre Lorde

Other quotes by Audre Lorde

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

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Women
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Theres always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself – whether its Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. – because thats the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. – Audre Lorde

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teacher
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I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. Weve been taught that silence would save us, but it wont. – Audre Lorde

Category:
Fear
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Other Quotes from
Art
category

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Art

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. – Amy Lowell

Category:
Art

Im free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I dont try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I dont compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. – Erykah Badu

Category:
Art

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. – Paula Abdul

Category:
Art

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I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food. – Sienna Miller

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Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan. – Ingrid Newkirk

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diet

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night – professors, officials, the Minister of Finance – but there were decisions that I had to make. – Shimon Peres

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finance

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. – George Weinberg

Category:
Graduation