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thehopefulquotes · 1 day

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You cannot use someone else’s fire; you can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe you have it.

Audre Lorde

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stanleyscubrick · 8 months

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A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

#a burst of light #audre lorde #selected works of audre lorde #mine #studyblr #studyspo #dark academia #light academia #booklr #writing #chaotic academia #literature #classical academia

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soracities · 7 months

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Audre Lorde, from "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" (1981)

#q #quotes #essays and articles #audre lorde #the uses of anger #id included #echoes of the other #on culture #typography #m #x

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sweatermuppet · 5 months

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the audre lorde questionnaire to oneself, intended as a creative writing exercise by Divya Victor, who asks to be credited

#audre lorde #divya victor

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mothprincess · 5 months

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Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

#quotes #reading #audre lorde #the cancer journals

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nerdygaymormon · 3 months

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#black history month #queeeer chameleon #audre lorde #willi ninja #marsha p johnson #bayard rustin #stormé delarverie #james baldwin #justin fashanu #lady phyll #yasmin benoit #queer history

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havingapoemwithyou · 26 days

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out of the wind by Audre Lorde

#Audre Lorde #poetry #poem #april

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sisteroutsiders · 1 year

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Audre Lorde to her students during a poetry workshop, as shown in A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

#A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde #Audre Lorde #Black women #Black feminism #film #interviews #on writing #edited because I did not originally upload the complete quotation. the last screenshot was added 9-25.

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raspberrysgod · 8 months

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when audre lorde wrote "the shape of your teeth is written into my palm like a second lifeline." and virginia woolf "in case you ever foolishly forget; i'm never not thinking of you." and sylvia plath "kiss me, and you will see how important i am."

#audre lorde #virginia woolf #sylvia plath

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spells4poc · 9 months

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A Litany for Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1995)

#audre lorde #poems and quotes #black feminism

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unapologeticallygay · 22 days

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a list of (some of) the things we owe to lesbians

the stonewall uprising (x)

pride marches (x)

homosexuality being removed from the dsm (x)

paving the way for the legalization of cross dressing/influencing gnc women’s fashion (x) (x) (x)

aids organizing and care (x) (x) (x)

fighting to include black women and lesbians into feminism/women’s rights movements (x) (x) (x)

black history month in the uk (x)

legalization of gay marriage in the usa (x) (x)

physically protecting the community (from storme delarverie who patrolled gay neighbourhoods to the butches protecting drag story time)

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littlealienproducts · 8 months

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Audre Lorde Feminist Quote t-shirt by purgatoryltd

#audre lorde #quote #quotes #tee #tshirt #feminism

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ftmtftm · 5 months

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I was born Black, and a woman. I am trying to become the strongest person I can become to live the life I have been given and to help effect change toward a liveable future for this earth and for my children. As a Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, poet, mother of two including one boy and a member of an interracial couple, I usually find myself part of some group in which the majority defines me as deviant, difficult, inferior or just plain "wrong."

From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sexes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression. I have learned that sexism and heterosexism both arise from the same source as racism.

"Oh," says a voice from the Black community, "but being Black is NORMAL!" Well, I and many Black people of my age can remember grimly the days when it didn't used to be!

I simply do not believe that one aspect of myself can possibly profit from the oppression of any other part of my identity. I know that my people cannot possibly profit from the oppression of any other group which seeks the right to peaceful existence. Rather, we diminish ourselves by denying to others what we have shed blood to obtain for our children. And those children need to learn that they do not have to become like each other in order to work together for a future they will all share.

Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue, because I and thousands of other Black women are part of the lesbian community. Any attack against lesbians and gays is a Black issue, because thousands of lesbians and gay men are Black. There is no hierarchy of oppression.

I cannot afford the luxury of fighting one form of oppression only. I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.

Audre Lorde, There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions [ audio / pdf ] - bold and italics mine

#audre lorde #intersectional feminism #feminism #feminist theory

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soracities · 6 months

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