² This quote is from the essay “Poetry is not a luxury,” published in Sister Outsider. ¹ Audre Lorde uses the term outsider to express the condition of Black women, “whose experiences and traditions are too ‘alien’ to understand.” If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
According to Lorde, “the farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”. Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. In the book, Lorde proposes a feminist, anti-racist view on poetry writing, pedagogy, sexuality, and strategies of resistence of Black women. The fact that they share the same name is an example of how her poems are drenched with the political propositions and concerns she articulated in her essays, and vice-versa. Her verses discuss the experience and struggle of black women for life, through elements that symbolize their relationship with the world, beliefs, nature, and other women. “Sister Outsider” is also the name of her powerful book of essays published in 1984. The poem Sister Outsider is part of the book The Black Unicorn, by Audre Lorde, published in 1978 in the United States. This relationship expands as women break the silence and fear and turn loneliness into strength and learning.
The poem “Sister Outsider” is part of the book The Black Unicorn, by Audre Lorde, published in 1978 in the United States.
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