Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
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⭐4.7/5 rating from 496 readers
📚First-ever combined essays & poems
🔥Powerful, urgent social justice themes
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📖 Speak up, stand out — silence is not an option.
Your Silence Will Not Protect You is a groundbreaking collection that brings together Audre Lorde’s essays and poems for the first time, featuring a preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge and an introduction by Sara Ahmed. Celebrated for its powerful exploration of race, gender, and identity, this book holds a 4.7-star rating from nearly 500 readers and remains a vital read for anyone committed to social justice and transformative dialogue.
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A**E
Hard-hitting, a lesson for everyone, of every race.
Because it's a collection of essays, the message can be a bit repetitive at times, as the essays are all on the same subject: racism and sexism in the USA, by the same author; but maybe that's what we need in order to absorb the message. The difficult truth is that the lessons haven't been learned, in all the years since Audre Lorde wrote these essays, full of anger and frustration. Well worth reading.
I**R
Recommended reading
It wasn't eye opening for me as I'm a very open and deep thinking person, so I wasn't often caught off guard. However there were some amazing quotes in this book and I enjoyed a few of the poems. I am touched at the life the author led and this was the first book I read on black feminism. I am now interested in learning more. This is both an autobiography and poetry book, it is in my opinion a good window into black feminism and I definitely think it should be read.
W**E
The genius of Lorde beautifully presented.
Beautiful book, lovely card cover, uncrowded, appealing presentation, thick paper. A mix of a few poems, including “Sister Outsider” and some famous essays, including “poetry is not a luxury”, “the uses of anger...” & “uses of the erotic...” Even the prose is poetic and the words consist of uncommon wisdom. Buy one for you and one for a friend.
M**E
Excellent obsevations, outstanding.
I read this to be inspired by her wisdom and really think about what is real or an illusion or mental slavery.
S**Y
A powerful and necessary voice.
Took me a little while to get into this collection and can’t honestly say I connected with *all* of it (not being black, or a woman, or a lesbian), but there was no doubting by the end that Audre Lorde voice provides powerful, insightful, painful and necessary testimony.
K**S
Wonderful book in a not great condition for a new book
A beautiful book by the incredible Audrey Lord but I ordered a new copy and received what seems to be a used copy with the bind ripped...
M**Z
Cute clips for quirky styling!
cute clips love them
J**T
Starts off really well
Put this book down when she starts attacking white women. Seriously?
C**.
Súper
A mi hija de 15 años le ha encantado este libro. Le gusta mucho la autora. Lo recomiendo cómo regalo.
M**.
on time, great condition.
It arrived in excellent condition, it was delivered on approximately the estimated date. I haven't read it yet, but it looks great. Thank you.
A**.
Exemplaire en mauvais état
L'exemplaire que j'ai reçu était malheureusement abîmé...
A**E
Deutsch Englisch lesend
Lässt sich gut lesen als nicht Muttersprachler mit mittelmäßigen Englischkenntnissen
K**I
Good read!!
Just purchased and working on reading🙏 slowly educating myself on queer icons and this lady!!!👏👏👏 Such an impact that im so excited to read and learn about!!
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