I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?
Audre LordeThe true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
Audre LordeFor we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.
Audre LordeEvery Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
Audre Lorde