For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets. β¨ Audre Lorde (2012). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, p.39, Crossing Press
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- Without community, there is no liberation. β¨ Audre Lorde (2012). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, p.112, Crossing Press
- Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive. β¨ Aud β¦ βΆ
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