Audre Lorde Quotes

We have always put the quest for balance at the center of our storytelling, whether it is the struggle to find it within one character, between a character and society, between disparate cultures or between humans and their environment.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside the lion.

In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'

I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

The solution, as always, is a union of the half truths drawn from the extremes

The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.

This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

It's important to feel settled and balanced in life, and that has been tough for me to do.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.