"There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions"

-- Audre Lorde

#Hierarchy Quotes #Oppression Quotes

“So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.”
“Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.”

Source : Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.17, Macmillan
“I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life.”
“As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.”

Source : "Angels and demons" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.
“I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.”
“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”
“For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.”
“Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.”

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