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I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

Audre Lorde

Literature, Very Happy, Walkers

Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.

Audre Lorde

Emotional, Play, Empowering

Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Dover Publications

You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

Audre Lorde

Cities, Able, Shouting

Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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.

Audre Lorde

Lying, Heart, Admitting

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

Audre Lorde

Heterosexuality Is, World, Gaps

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