unified collection of poems, partly describes a tricky relationship with her mother. "My mother had two faces and a frying pot/where she cooked up her daughters/into girls . . . My mother had two faces/and a broken pot/where she hid out a perfect daughter/who was not me."Lorde was openly lesbian before the gay movement existed. Her wise words often seem eerily prescient. "Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time and the arena, and the manner of our revolutions, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing."
from The Guardian: My hero: Audre Lorde by Jackie Kay
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