“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.” — Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, in Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture, ed. Russell Ferguson et al. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), p. 281.
