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Audre Lorde quotes about feminism
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
— Audre Lorde
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.
— Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
— Audre Lorde
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house
— Audre Lorde
I seek no favor untouched by blood.
— Audre Lorde
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined … imposed silence about any area of our lives is a tool for separation and powerlessness.
— Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman’s face? What woman’s terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?
— Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
When I dare to be powerful–to use my strength in the service of my vision–then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
— Audre Lorde
Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master’s concerns. Now we hear that is is the task of women of Color to educated white women – in the face of tremendous resistance – as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought.
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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