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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#ideas #making #new #new ideas #new ways

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#anymore #because #devastating #doing #experience

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#anything #association #brad #brad pitt #ever

Some people are naturally thin, and some are heavier. There is a lot of focus on it, and it can be a lot of pressure for people. But honestly, I think as long as someone is healthy, that is most important. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#healthy #heavier #honestly #i #i think

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#beard #beautiful #butterflies #failed #full

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? ↗

— Audre Lorde

#although #define #energizing #enjoy #i

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

#black #feeling #felt #fine #gay

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#going #keep #know #long #make

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#color #create #culture #develop #experiences

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#determined #did #evolution #face #fact