Audre Lorde. What can I say? Admiration ❤️
A few favourite lines from her essays:
“For women, then, poetry is not luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams towards survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.”
“For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is discovered. It is the real connection which is so feared by a patriarchal world. Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women.”
“Any discussion among women about racism must include the recognition and the use of anger.”
“Revolution is not a one-time event.”
The most favourite quote by which I was introduced to Audre’s work,
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” ✊🏽
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