There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the interconnectedness of various social issues in our lives.
Audre Lorde highlights the complexity of human experiences, arguing that no struggle can be isolated from other aspects of identity and life. She suggests that our lives are multi-faceted, and issues such as race, gender, sexuality, and class are interrelated, requiring a holistic approach to understanding and addressing social justice.
In practice
In a speech advocating for women's rights, highlighting the importance of addressing race and class issues alongside gender.
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.
We're all worth the same_x000D_ When we turn off the light.
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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