The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle, because none of us live single-issue lives.
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) described herself as a Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet, and refused every invitation to put those down one at a time. The essays collected in Sister Outsider are where most people meet the arguments: that difference is not the thing to be overcome but the thing to be used, and that anger, precisely aimed, is information rather than noise.
She is filed under poetry or under activism more often than under philosophy, which is a filing decision rather than a judgement about the work. The line about single-issue struggles is quoted on the About page of this site for a reason: it is the mechanism, not the mood.