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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

Audre Lorde
Women, Responsibility, Gay
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

Audre Lorde
Responsibility, Arena, Standing
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.141, Crossing Press

And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives.

Audre Lorde
Responsibility, Cry, Share
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.43, Crossing Press

And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

Audre Lorde
Responsibility, Safe, Settling
Audre Lorde (1978). “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power”, Crossing Press

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