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It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish.

It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Audre Lorde
Order, Differences, House
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Audre Lorde
Expectations, House, Tools

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Audre Lorde
Peace, Power, House
Title of essay (1979)

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

Audre Lorde
Games, House, May
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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