Audre Lorde

Where are we on this food chain of life to be eaten so easily century after century, decade after decade?

In Japan it’s said that the words of the soul reside in a spirit called kotodama

As Erich Fromm once said, “The fact that millions of people take part in a delusion doesn’t make it sane.”

I’m not willing to regiment anyone’s life, but if we are to scrutinize our human relationships, we must be willing to scrutinize all aspects of those relationships. The subject of revolution is ourselves, is our lives.

The linkage of passion to dominance/ subordination is the prototype of the heterosexual image of male-female relationships, one which justifies pornography. Women are supposed to love being brutalized. This is also the prototypical justification of all relationships of oppression—that the subordinate one who is “different” enjoys the inferior position.

Heterosexism—a belief in the inherent superiority of one form of loving over all others and thereby the right to dominance

(why should flesh-colored Band-Aids always be pink?)

When I say 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 womanness, and therefore my struggles on both these fronts are inseparable.

The terror of Black Lesbians is buried in that deep inner place where we have been taught to fear all difference—to kill it or ignore it.

It is a waste of woman energy, and it puts a terrible weapon into the hands of your enemies to be used against you to silence you, to keep you docile and in line. It also serves to keep us isolated and apart.