Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984 original; edició 2007)

Powerful stuff, that is going to stay with me forever. A great collection from an incredible woman. That Lorde's words and insights written 30 years ago remain completely relevant and continue to be true, and her assessment of the truly rotten nature of american society and the world at large in terms of how people are punished for deviating from that mythical "norm" of young, white, able, heterosexual, male, and always pitted against one another, and how horribly evil American foreign policy has been with devastating suffering as a result...all of it remains true today and that is both extraordinarily visionary and profoundly sad. Progress and improvement does not happen on its own and in too many cases, is not happening. We must all fight tooth and nail for every bit of progress, social and economic. ( )

"For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of silence will choke us." ( )

Probably more of a 3.5 but I am rounding up.

This was an interesting collection of essays, and I liked getting to know a historical perspective of feminism from a Black lesbian woman. The audiobook is narrated well too and I would definitely recommend the format. It might not feel as inclusive as we would like it to be, but it wasn't really a deal breaker for me. ( )

The only reason this is not a 5 star rating, is that the narrator of the audio book sounded robotic and inauthentic. ( )

Sister Outsider is a steamroller. The book-ending pieces about Russia and Grenada felt a bit out of place, but the bulk of her writing here is fabulous and every bit as relevant today as it was 40 years ago. I only wish I went into this reading a hard copy so I could underline (Kindle will never be good for that). I wish she was still with us today. ( )