Audre Lorde Quotes

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

I have no message.

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

We don’t need a speaker; we need a listener!

People want to believe that love conquers all and that differences can be worked out, and I do believe that, too.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I can't get on girls' wavelengths at all. I think we are completely different. I don't know, maybe that's the way it should be. If we could all get along occasionally though, that would be nice.

You don't build walls; you build bridges between people.

There is room for growth in all of us and across all of these platforms, to be able to make sure that we are hearing each other, that we are understanding exactly what's going on across the country.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.

Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.