Civil Rights Activist Audre Lorde Quotes & Sayings

In the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life. — Lisa Unger

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works. — Ernest L. Boyer

I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room. — Rebecca De Mornay

God is the only one that won't disappoint you. Everyone else are percentages of peace. — Shannon L. Alder

Love and compassion are the creating and sustaining elements of humanity, without them humanity will be inhumane. — Debasish Mridha

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand. — Margaret Deland

It is legal because I wish it. — Louis XIV

Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril. — James P. Hoffa