Audre Lorde1934–1992I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism (1981)- The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
- Learning from the 60s
- The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, p. 41
- Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface, p. 63
- Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response, p. 75
- The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”
Narcissism comes not out of self-love but out of self-hatred.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface”, p. 62All our children are outriders for a queendom not yet assured.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response”, p. 73Rape is not aggressive sexuality, it is sexualized aggression.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, p. 120We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Notes from a Trip to Russia”, p. 31In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”, p. 112Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”, p. 112Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface”, p. 63
