• Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil 1934-1992
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. programmed
2. ourselves
3. attention
4. recognize
5. interests
6. common

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Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. by : Audre Lorde

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