A review by katrinadreamer
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

5.0

“It is not difference that immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.”

“The price of increasing power is increasing opposition.”

“Revolution is not a one time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses; for instance, it is learning to address each others’ difference with respect.”

I could quote many other wise and prescient passages. Lorde’s writing is powerful, like a gut punch. And still completely, sadly relevant today.