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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. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #common #common interests #compete #define

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#deals #ever #feminist #lesbian #out

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#close #each #emotionally #men #other

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#becomes #been #black #consciously #each

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#color #create #culture #develop #experiences

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#character #elegance #happy #inner #men

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#birds #cabaret #colors #fish #i

I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#dress #i #i am #know #like

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more. ↗

— Courtney Love

#because #father #growing #growing up #had

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters. ↗

— Mia Love

#i #i think #independents #life #lot