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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

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I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.

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Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

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And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives.

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Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

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Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde
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Born: February 18, 1934
Died: November 17, 1992 (aged 58)
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