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  <title><![CDATA[Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Audre Lorde]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now wait, you've not read this book? Really? Maybe you're just kidding. &quot;I have come to work on you like a drug or a chisel&quot; wrote the late Audre Lorde. Her passing created a hollow space in my soul that is now filled again each time I read her prose &amp; poetry. <br/><br/>Just because 'Sis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14746149">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 16 21:38:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[the bible just not doing it for ya?  feel disappointed by the christian science monitor?  maybe not getting the guidance you need from the koran or buddha...  this shit is a new religion- all the spiritual guidance you'll ever need.  well.  it's fucking good and smart and amazing and no good feminis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17912752">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first heard about Audre Lorde when I was in high school debate, and was first introduced to concepts of feminism, racism, and the interplay of powerful social forces. When I was younger, I really didn't understand her fundamental theory that you can't use the master's tools to dismantle the master...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2570820">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 06 20:23:51 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I return to this series of essays again and again.  The power and simplicity and searing intelligence that Audre Lorde brings to her fierce poetry is quieted here by introspection.  Stark and lovely, these essays are guided by an emotional clarity, an ethical imperative and Lorde's intent comittment...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14786199">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Expect a wonderful woman, who was trained to think in emotional cues, struggling to write prose. From the effort, one may lean the intensity and responsibility needed towards words. Lorde's serious engagement with racism within women's understanding and sexism within black community makes her essays...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39927221">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, I really am in love with this woman. And reading all the other reviews about her as I enter this into my books just gets me all wound up for her again. I imagine this and Zami will be back on my currently-reading shelf soon!]]></body>
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    <review id="31013257">
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting series of essays about race and sexuality, as well as some of Lorde's writings/speeches on poetry and discourse. And in general, I just like collections of shorter pieces because the timing works well for riding public transportation.<br/><br/>&quot;The Master's Tools Will Never Disman...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31013257">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[audre lorde is the movement grandmother.  her work is both timeless and steeped in second-wave feminist ideas that have been replicated on many a bumper sticker and tshirt.  it's unfortunate that her work can be such a major contribution to the canon of feminist thought and to not translate as well ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30760720">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72728414">
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  <date_updated>Sun Sep 27 21:20:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first time I encountered this book, it was assigned for a college class. I remember standing in line to pay for my books, reading this one, and thinking to myself &quot;This is the truest thing I have ever read.&quot;<br/><br/>What I mean by that is that Audre Lorde uses words as they are mean...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72728414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20874459">
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    <body><![CDATA[I hate to admit that I'm giving this book five stars as much out of old time's sake as anything else. Some of Lorde's essays, including a few featured in this collection, were immensely influential in forming my feminism, and reading them is still a very powerful experience. <br/><br/>However, I h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20874459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17705875">
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    <body><![CDATA[Audre Lorde's essays are incredibly inspiring to me as a woman, a feminist, a human being. Not to be missed are &quot;Poetry is Not A Luxury,&quot; &quot;The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House,&quot; &quot;The Uses of the Erotic,&quot; and my favorite, &quot;The Transformation of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17705875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am using essay &quot;The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House&quot; for a presentation in March but need to read most of the essays before then as prep work. I recommend essay her famous essay  &quot;Use of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grenada.  Black women and hatred.  Interview with a white feminist. Interconnection of the oppressions. Lesbians raising sons.  And holy FFF Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.  Reading by Mary Mack. Blog by Renee from work. Sent to KF.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for a book club I've joined around issues of race, and it certainly gave us plenty of fodder for discussion.  As a book it's disjointed by nature, as it's really a collection of essays and speeches made my Lorde over her formidable career.  They are no less effecting in this format, howe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21745465">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading The Erotic as Power is like feeling blood fill up my veins and arteries and muscles. This book is life-giving and life-affirming even as it cautions, laments, and perturbs. This book rises to the level of Sacred Text.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While some of this would be more powerful heard (as intended) than it is read, these are very valuable essays.<br/><br/>The famous quote &quot;Your silence will not protect you&quot; comes from here.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lorde was not only a skilled poet, she was a superb essayist.  Lorde brings up numerous difficult truths that so many others shied (and continue to shy) away from.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always come back to the Transformation of Silence essay.  I first read it in 2000.  I cannot find anything better on the topic though.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” and  “Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”]]></body>
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