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“Nzinga is so wise and knowledgeable about how to be a liberated black woman in an oppressive white world that's she's opening my eyes to well, everything, it's like she's Alice and Audre and Angela and Aretha rolled into one, seriously . . .”

Wisdom Learning Feminism Alice In Wonderland Audre Lorde

Author:Bernadine Evaristo

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.”

Poetry Audre Lorde

Author:Audre Lorde

“The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible.”

Children Audre Lorde

Book:Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power

Source: Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power

“Writers give readers courage – the courage to be utterly your complete and complex self. (In reference to Audre Lorde)”

Inspiration Writers Self Acceptance Audre Lorde

Author:Jackie Kay

“The good Lorde told us we weren't meant to survive, but we've always been good at going about our lives in factories and on our knees”

Poetry Poem Survival Black Women African Americans Blacks Audre Lorde

Book:Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Source: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

“But I believe that socially sanctioned prosthesis is merely another way of keeping women with breast cancer silent and separate from each other. For instance, what would happen if an army of one-breasted women descended upon Congress and demanded that the use of carcinogenic, fat-stored hormones in beef-feed be outlawed?”

Feminism Cancer Cancer Journey Audre Lorde

Book:The Cancer Journals

Source: The Cancer Journals

“What writer Audre Lorde says to black men and women is true for all of us: "If we do not define ourselves, we will be defined by others for their use and to our detriment." Our country and perhaps all human history is a pattern of oppression, repression, suppression, subjugation. Racism is part of our heritage, reminding us that not all aspects of a culture should be preserved.”

Racism And Culture Audre Lorde Nepantla Pat Mora

Book:Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle

Source: Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle

“There are no new pains.”

Speaking Out Silencing Audre Lorde The Master S Tools

Book:The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Source: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

“The principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or which defines human need to the exclusion of the psychic and emotional components of that need—the principal horror of such a system is that it robs our work of its erotic value, its erotic power and life appeal and fulfillment.”

Erotic Systemic Oppression Audre Lorde

Book:Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power

Source: Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power

“It has rained for five days running the world is a round puddle of sunless water where small islands are only beginning to cope a young boy in my garden is bailing out water from his flower patch when I ask him why he tells me young seeds that have not seen sun forget and drown easily.”

Poetry Poem Coping Audre Lorde Black Unicorn

Book:The Black Unicorn: Poems

Source: The Black Unicorn: Poems