Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
Quotes from Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches — Audre Lorde
1934–1992 United States
89 quotes
Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
All our children are outriders for a queendom not yet assured.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Rape is not aggressive sexuality, it is sexualized aggression.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Narcissism comes not out of self-love but out of self-hatred.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
The need for sharing deep feeling is a human need.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
The knowledge of fear can help make us free.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Difference does not have to be threatening.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
One oppression does not justify another.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Black feminists speak as women because we are women and do not need others to speak for us.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Pain is very visceral, particularly to the people who are hurting.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
As a people, we most certainly must work together.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Audre Lorde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.