Audre Lorde Quotes

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

I care about looking into someone's eyes and finding out who they are.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.

When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.

It's incredible to me that any two individual minds, trapped in their skulls and bodies and histories and unique experiences, are able to reach across the void between them and touch at all.

What motivates me is connecting with people and making everybody feel loved.

Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other… We are human creatures, meant to be linked… So, yes, it's a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don't know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.

I can see that everybody has their own challenges that they are dealing with. But what's so beautiful about music is that it brings people together, levels the playing field and opens people up.

There's something really comforting when you can truly connect with someone and be understood. Isn't that what we all want?

Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us in moments of isolation when we think nobody understands.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.