Do you know who you are? Do you know who you really are? Some people spend their entire lives trying to answer that one question. Some figure it out, while others feel they will never know. Audre Lorde’s book is the answer to that question. This is a story of a Black homosexual woman discovering herself in a racist, homophobic, American society. This is a story of a person surviving. Lorde calls this story …showed first 75 words of 1714 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1714 total…to accept herself. And once she did that, she was able to survive. This book holds a very important message. In many ways, Audre Lorde's experience parallels the paradigms that have emerged and shifted in both the feminist and lesbian movements. Naming the different intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status is imperative. Only through acknowledging and naming difference can individuality be allowed to exist, creating space for harmony among human beings.