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Audre Lorde

"Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future."

Source : Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press

Audre Lorde

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“Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.”
“Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.”
“I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.”
“I'm really lucky that I've had a little gang of people who I've been involved with for a long time... I've been really lucky to have a gang of people who have always been there to encourage me to get on with it. Styles come and go, but I try not to take any notice of that.”

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“Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.”
“And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.”
“One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.”
“There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren't correct.”

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