By James Baldwin — 1962
“Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”
Read on www.newyorker.com
CLEAR ALL
Audre Lorde telling friends in 1992 about an experience she had at the Berlin airport.
Ellen Kuzwayo, friend and comrade of Audre Lorde, visited her in Berlin in the summer of 1992 a few months before Audre's passing. Ellen Kuzwayo was a South African author and activist who became a member of Parliament after the South African liberation.
1
In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.
7