“Non esiste una cosa come la lotta univoca, perché non viviamo vite univoche.”
Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 245. ISBN 9788858022900
Audre Lorde è stata una poetessa e scrittrice statunitense.
“Non esiste una cosa come la lotta univoca, perché non viviamo vite univoche.”
Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 245. ISBN 9788858022900
The Cancer Journals, Special Edition, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA, 1997, p. 13.
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
(1981) Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”
“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
Origine: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Your silence will not protect you.”
essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider
Origine: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Contesto: The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am; and the black mothers in each of us-the poet-whispers in our dreams, I feel therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom.
essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.”
essay "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House", in Sister Outsider