Audre Lorde

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Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named, and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action.

Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider

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Topic

Pain Learning from suffering

Author

Audre Lorde

Source

Sister Outsider

Medium

Essay

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Lorde, Audre. "Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger." Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press, 1984.

Your silence will not protect you.

Audre Lorde

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Topic

Oppression Politics

Speaker

Audre Lorde

Source

The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Original Citation

Lorde, Audre. "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action." Modern Language Association's Lesbian and Literature Panel. 28 Dec. 1977, Chicago, IL, USA.

Current Citation

Lorde, Audre. "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action." The Selected Works of Audre Lorde. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

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.

Audre Lorde

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Topic

Women

Author

Audre Lorde

Source

Poetry Is Not a Luxury

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lorde, Audre. "Poetry Is Not a Luxury." Chrysalis, 1977.