Best quotes by Audre Lorde on Women

Checkout quotes by Audre Lorde on Women

• ‟ We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

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• ‟ I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

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• ‟ Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

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• ‟ But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

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• ‟ When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

  - Audre Lorde