Audre Lorde nejznámější citáty
1979
Originál: (en) If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?
Zdroj: [Scoff, Joan Wallach, Feminism and History, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996, 6, anglicky]
Audre Lorde: Citáty anglicky
Audre Lorde kniha The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals, Special Edition, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA, 1997, p. 13.
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
(1981) Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”
“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
Zdroj: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Your silence will not protect you.”
essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider
Zdroj: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Revolution is not a one time event.”
Zdroj: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Kontext: The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am; and the black mothers in each of us-the poet-whispers in our dreams, I feel therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom.
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.”
essay "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House", in Sister Outsider
essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider
