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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

Audre Lorde
Cancer, Racism, Justice
Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Dover Publications

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Audre Lorde
Attitude, Anger, Racism
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.129, Crossing Press

I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black feminists and lesbians is represented. What this says about the vision of this conference is sad, in a country where racism, sexism and homophobia are inseparable. . . .

Audre Lorde
Country, Heterosexuality Is, Racism
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.110, Crossing Press

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

Audre Lorde
Writing, Circles, Racism
Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Audre Lorde
Moving, Racism, Competition
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.48, Crossing Press

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Audre Lorde
Hands, White, Racism

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