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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
For within living structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men.
Audre Lorde • The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House (Penguin Modern)
We share a common interest, survival, and it cannot be pursued in isolation from others simply because their differences make us uncomfortable.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Audre Lorde • Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)
In touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are not native to me, such as resignation, despair, self-effacement, depression, self-denial.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
I am learning to live beyond fear by living through it, and in the process learning to turn fury at my own limitations into some more creative energy. I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I’ll be sending messages on aouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side. When I dare to be powerful, to use my
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