Audre Lorde Quotes

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

Every person has his or her own journey.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

Live life on your own path. Everybody's got something different. You can't keep up with all those people, so you better keep up with yourself.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

I'm a human being first and foremost, and I have something to say that I think is worthwhile. 'Blue Caprice' is just the second installment of so much more coming.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.