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Audre Lorde1934–1992

Audre Lorde on power

Oppressors 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

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