Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
Audre LordeTags: truth society different misfits discrimination dehumanization profit differences rejection economics-society institutional-oppression institutionalized outsiders social-outcasts surplus survival-of-the-fittest
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre LordeTags: knowledge emotion feelings
Revolution is not a one time event.
Audre LordeTags: revolution
see me now
your severed daughter
laughing our name into echo
all the world shall remember
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows
comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
Audre LordeTags: women society different survival race racism differences poor rejection exclusion impoverished lesbians outcasts povetry social-acceptance survival-skills
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.
Audre LordeThe learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
Audre LordeBut the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
Audre LordeTags: consciousness feminist lesbian womanist
I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side
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