Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, by Audre Lorde.
Audre’s work is so necessary, and it’s a necessity I enjoy. The way she chooses to deliver her knowledge and express her insights can sometimes, I think, be too lofty to be universal. If the measure of a great communicator lies in how well (and simply) the audience is able to retain and engage with what’s communicated, I can’t call Audre a great communicator—not in this book, at least. What I can call her is a blessing, and I can say I’m grateful she spent so much of her life dedicated to transcribing her thoughts and critical analyses, and then inviting us to sit with them. How she did that bothers me. That she did that doesn’t.