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For 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 enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.Highlighted by 629 Kindle readers- The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us – the poet – whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.Highlighted by 600 Kindle readers
- I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of colour remains chained. Nor is any one of you.Highlighted by 547 Kindle readers
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This is a very short but powerful collection of essays and papers from the late 1970s to early 1980s. Audre Lorde was an American self-described Black, lesbian, feminist. She was also a powerful poet. The few papers reproduced here could easily have been written yesterday. That says something terrifying. In the paper entitled 'Learning from the 1960s' presented at Harvard for the 1982 Malcolm X Weekend, she states: "... we must recognise that many of our high expectations of rapid revolutionary change did not in fact occur. And many of the gains that did are even now being dismantled." That rings as true today as it did in 1982. Yet these papers also stress unity despite difference, and strength from within. I think everyone should read Audre Lorde. She spoke/speaks sense.
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2020
This is a very short but powerful collection of essays and papers from the late 1970s to early 1980s. Audre Lorde was an American self-described Black, lesbian, feminist. She was also a powerful poet. The few papers reproduced here could easily have been written yesterday. That says something terrifying. In the paper entitled 'Learning from the 1960s' presented at Harvard for the 1982 Malcolm X Weekend, she states: "... we must recognise that many of our high expectations of rapid revolutionary change did not in fact occur. And many of the gains that did are even now being dismantled." That rings as true today as it did in 1982. Yet these papers also stress unity despite difference, and strength from within. I think everyone should read Audre Lorde. She spoke/speaks sense.
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