Sister Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
heterocetera.
Audre Lorde • Sister Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
Our poems formulate the implications of ourselves, what we feel within and dare make real (or bring action into accordance with), our fears, our hopes, our most cherished terrors. For within living structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjun
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Possibility is neither forever nor instant.
Audre Lorde • Sister Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
In 1977 in Detroit, a young Black actress, Patricia Cowan, was invited to audition for a play called Hammer and was then hammered to death by the young Black male playwright. Patricia Cowan was not killed because she was Black. She was killed because she was a Black woman, and her cause belongs to us all. History does not record whether or not she
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The women who sustained me through that period were Black and
Audre Lorde • Sister Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged.
Audre Lorde • Sister Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
The erotic is the nurturer or nursemaid of all our deepest knowledge.
Audre Lorde • Sister Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.
Audre Lorde • Sister Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.