Racism Quotes by Audre Lorde

“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but…

— Audre Lorde

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

— Audre Lorde

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

— Audre Lorde

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said…

— Audre Lorde

It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of…

— Audre Lorde

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

— Audre Lorde

Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and…

— Audre Lorde

I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to…

— Audre Lorde

“In the 60s, political correctness became not a guideline for living, but a new set of shackles. A small and vocal part…

— Audre Lorde

“The distortion of relationship which says “I disagree with you, so I must destroy you” leaves us as Black people with basically…

— Audre Lorde

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black…

— Audre Lorde

I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the…

— Audre Lorde

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians…

— Audre Lorde

“I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the…

— Audre Lorde

“There is no Black person here who can afford to wait to be led into positive action for survival. Each one of…

— Audre Lorde

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game,…

— Audre Lorde

“We who are Black are at an extraordinary point of choice within our lives. To refuse to participate in the shaping our…

— Audre Lorde

“As Black people, if there is one thing we can learn from the 60s, it is how infinitely complex any move for…

— Audre Lorde