Audre Lorde Quotes - Page 11

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• The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .

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  Heterosexuality Is, World, Gaps

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.111, Crossing Press

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• Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

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  Men, Ties, Black

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.47, Crossing Press

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• I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

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  Rest In Peace, Children, Reading

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• Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

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  Grief, Bitterness, Ifs

  Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

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• I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other.

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  Lying, Heart, Admitting

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• I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

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  Literature, Very Happy, Walkers

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