A Burst of Light

by Audre Lorde

South Africa will be free, I

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The Sapphires Sapphos are a group of Lesbians of Color who had invited me to a special dinner at their regular monthly meeting.

Malcolm saying to Martin in the film, “I love you Martin, and we are both dead men.”

February 9, 1984 NEW YORK CITY So. No doubt about where we are in the world’s story. It has just cost $32,000 to complete a government-commissioned study that purports to show there is no rampant hunger in the U.S.A. I wonder if they realize rampant means aggressive. So. The starving old women who used to sit in broken-down rooming houses waiting for a welfare check now lie under park benches and eat out of garbage bins. “I only eat fruit,” she mumbled, rummaging through the refuse bin behind Gristede’s supermarket, while her gnarled Black hands carefully cut

away the rotted parts of a cantaloupe with a plastic ...