"Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind. Wise."
Toni Morrison - Nobel Lecture - 0 views
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She repeats herself here with a minor variation. What is the effect of this? What feelings, memories, etc. are being evoked with her language?
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For final exam - take home. Read and annotate this speech. Build on one another's comments. This is a collaborative effort.
[m2c] The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde - 0 views
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Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within that interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters.
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Within the interdependence of mutual (nondominant) differences lies that security which enables us to descend into the chaos of knowledge and return with true visions of our future, along with the concomitant power to effect those changes which can bring that future into being. Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged.
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For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.
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audrey lorde's scathing indictment of white feminism and it's complicity in patricarchy.
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