"We are powerful because we have survived"

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Audre Lorde

#Powerful Quotes

“I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.”
“It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.”
“By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.”

Source : Quoted in G. R. Gleig, The Life of Robert, First Lord Clive (1848)
“You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in all of us...I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so-called civilized society....You maggots make me sick! Hypocrites one and all...I don't need to hear all of society's rationalizations. I've heard them all before...legions of the night, night breed, repeat not the errors of the night prowler and show no mercy.”
“I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.”
“As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.”
“It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.”

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