“Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change.”

—  Audre Lorde

"The Uses of Anger"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

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writer and activist 1934–1992

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