The Uses of Anger Quotes

“What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?”
― Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

“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 one person of Color remains chained. Nor is any one of you.”
― Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

“Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction.”
― Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

“(...) J’ai léché les lèvres d’une louve, la colère, et je m’en suis servie pour illuminer, rire, protéger, mettre le feu en des lieux où il n’y avait ni lumière, ni nourriture, ni sœurs, en des lieux sans merci. (...)”
― Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism