If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind.
She was an inspiration'
Jackie Kay. so many themes of Audre's work have endured'
Renni Eddo Lodge, author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race '
I came across Audre Lorde's Zami, and I cried to think how lucky I was to have found her. '
Her work shows us new ways to imagine the world ...
A rapturous, life-affirming autobiographical novel by the '
Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet', it changed the literary landscape.
This is Audre Lorde's story.
On she stumbles - through teenage pain and loneliness, but then to happiness in friendship, work and sex, from Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing, always strong.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind
