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

Occupation

Black feminist Black activist Activist Feminist

From

United States

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Citation

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

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