Logo
Quote by Audre Lorde
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lo

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

Other quotes by Audre Lorde

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. – Audre Lorde

Category:
Society
Author
Audre Lorde
Read Quote

I cant really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? – Audre Lorde

Category:
alone
Author
Audre Lorde
Read Quote

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

Category:
Women
Author
Audre Lorde
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Truth
category

I am aware that a philosophers ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. – Nicolaus Copernicus

Category:
Truth

Truth is a naked and open daylight – Francis Bacon

Category:
Truth

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. – James Russell Lowell

Category:
Truth

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. – Harry S. Truman

Category:
Truth

Random Quotes

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in. – Stanislav Grof

Category:
Future

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. – W. L. George

Category:
Food

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesnt make another person feel loved. – Gary Chapman

Category:
Marriage

A peace deal requires agreements, and you dont make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies. – Richard Holbrooke

Category:
Peace