“I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.”
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Audre Lorde 72
writer and activist 1934–1992Related quotes

“My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.”
Source: The Diary of an Old Soul & the White Page Poems

"August 17th" from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems
Words for Dr. Y (1978)

Source: 1969 - 1980, In: "Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper," 1987, p. 26 : 'Notes from 1969'

“When I play music, that is my best yoga, the best meditation, the best prayer.”
Music is a Prayer:An interview with Hariprasad Chaurasia by Ian Gottstein
Life & Times of Michael K (1983)
Context: Though this is a large country, so large that you would think there would be space for everyone, what I have learned from life tells me that it is hard to keep out of the camps. Yet I am convinced there are areas that lie between the camps and belong to no camp, not even to the catchment areas of the camps — certain mountaintops, for example, certain islands in the middle of swamps, certain arid strips where human beings may not find it worth their while to live. I am looking for such a place in order to settle there, perhaps only till things improve, perhaps forever. I am not so foolish, however, as to imagine that I can rely on maps and roads to guide me. Therefore I have chosen you to show me the way.

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfield Park

“Money is the best recipe for happiness.”
Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfiled Park
Variant: A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Source: Pride and Prejudice