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The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Concise, powerful, still painfully relevant.
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as any one person of Color remains chained. Nor is any one of you." (Uses of Anger)
"Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existance and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns. Now we hear that it is the task if women of Color to educate white women -- in the face of tremendous resistance -- as to our existance, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought." (The Master's Tools)
Includes: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, Poetry is Not a Luxury, Uses of the Erotic, and Uses of Anger from the book Sister Outsider.
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as any one person of Color remains chained. Nor is any one of you." (Uses of Anger)
"Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existance and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns. Now we hear that it is the task if women of Color to educate white women -- in the face of tremendous resistance -- as to our existance, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought." (The Master's Tools)
Includes: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, Poetry is Not a Luxury, Uses of the Erotic, and Uses of Anger from the book Sister Outsider.