Audre Lorde Quotes

Labels are for cans, not people.

The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from each other, but that we are so alike.

People don't really think other people are the same.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

Once you label me you negate me.

We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

The first thing I am is a person. I am a woman. And I am part of a nation, the Indian nation. But people either relate to you as an Indian or as a woman. They relate to you as a category. A lot of people don't realize that I am not that different from everyone else.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

If we try and make out of the American people a people of one mind and one mold, we're through.

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.

I hate labels.

I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.

There are a mix of good and bad people everywhere, be it Punjab, Delhi or Haryana.

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

Everyone in the world, regardless if they're Muslim or not, does not have to adhere to the label society slaps on you.

The private person Tom Neuwirth and the art figure Conchita Wurst respect each other from the bottom of their hearts. They are two individual characters with their own individual stories, but with one essential message for tolerance and against discrimination.

I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each other, but why encourage that by keeping the old labels with their ready-made history of millennial hate?

Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

All around the world, there is corruption, tribalism and division, as many find it easier to pick on those that are different, which is why we need to hold tightly to the good in this world.

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.