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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

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Society
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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. – Audre Lorde

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Learning
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The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. – Audre Lorde

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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. – Tertullian

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. – John Locke

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. – Aristotle

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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. – Thomas Carlyle

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I have deep respect for peoples individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting. – Andrew Denton

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Its big production. Its huge. Its using studio technology to your benefit. You dont go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create. – Joe Elliott

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The surest sign of age is loneliness. – Annie Dillard

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. – Nicolas Chamfort

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