Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

1984 • 208 pages

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The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this collection of her essential prose - essays, speeches, letters, interviews - explores race, sexuality, poetry, friendship, the erotic and the need for female solidarity, and includes her landmark piece 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'. 'The truth of her writing is as necessary today as it's ever been' Guardian

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Thank you Robin Eller for lending your voice to Lorde's finely crafted words.

I might have benefited more had I read this in a class but it was still so meaningful.


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