Audre Lorde Quotes

I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.

Everyone wants to be recognized.

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

When I first started the biggest thing I wanted was for the opposition to acknowledge me.

Some people just want to be accepted.

I've always just wanted people to look at me.

The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.

It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

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

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

I'm recognized, let me put it that way.

Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

I just want people to know me.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.