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Your Silence Will Not Protect You was published posthumously in order to bring together Lorde's essential poetry, speeches, and essays, into one volume for the first time. As Silver Press states, "Her extraordinary belief in the power of language – of speaking – to articulate selfhood, confront injustice and bring about change in the world ...
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches is a collection of essential essays and speeches written by Audre Lorde, a writer who focuses on the particulars of her identity: Black woman, lesbian, poet, activist, cancer survivor, mother, and feminist. This collection, now considered a classic volume of Lorde's most influential works of non-fiction ...
Also in Sister Outsider is the essay, "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action". Lorde discusses the importance of speaking, even when afraid, because otherwise silence immobilizes and chokes us. Many people fear to speak the truth because of the real risks of retaliation, but Lorde warns, "Your silence does not protect you."
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Sister Outsider; Y. Your Silence Will Not Protect You; Z. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name This page was last edited on 27 January 2013, at 07:00 (UTC). Text is ...
Before Morrison's 'Beloved' and Walker's 'The Color Purple,' there was 'The Sisterhood,' the 1970s Black women writers' group of Courtney Thorsson's new book.
Lorde is legally blind from a very young age, isolating her even further from her surroundings and a family from which she does not receive much warmth or affection. Her two older sisters, Phyllis and Helen, are very close, but are rarely mentioned in Zami and Lorde spends little time with them. Her parents and other adults, especially her ...
Daniel de la Hoz/getty images. 1. She *Has* to Be Right. Your good old sis has hated every person you’ve ever dated, and it’s starting to feel like no one is going to be good enough.