Women of Color Feminisms

Inspired by Women of Color theorists like Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, and Cherrie Moraga. Bot made with and

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As they become known to & accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas. –A Lorde

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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. –A Lorde

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I feel angry about this—the years when I refused to recognize privilege, both when it worked against me, and when I worked it, ignorantly at the expense of others. These are not settled issues. –C. Moraga

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I write to record what others have miswritten about me, about you. –G Anzaldúa

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But women have survived. –A Lorde

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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. –A Lorde

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The danger lies in failing to acknowledge the specificity of the oppression. –C Moraga

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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. –A Lorde

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The mestiza is a product of crossbreeding, designed for preservation under a variety of conditions. –G Anzaldúa

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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. –A Lorde

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If I participate, knowingly or not, in my sister's oppression & she calls me on it, to answer her anger with my own blankets the substance of our exchange with reaction. It wastes energy. -A Lorde

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Didn't we start writing to reconcile this other within us? –G Anzaldúa

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

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Didn't we start writing to reconcile this other within us? –G Anzaldúa

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Women responding to racism = women responding to the anger of exclusion, unquestioned privilege, racial distortions, silence, ill-use, stereotyping, defensiveness, betrayal, & co-optation. –A Lorde

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How have I internalized my own oppression? How have I oppressed? –C Moraga

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I write to record what others have miswritten about me, about you. –G Anzaldúa

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I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue, my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. –G Anzaldúa

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As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. –A Lorde

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Didn't we start writing to reconcile this other within us? –G Anzaldúa