“For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt-of examining what those ideas feel like being lived on a Sunday morning at 7 a.m., after brunch, during wild love, making war, giving birth, mourning our dead-while we suffer the old longings, battle the old warnings and fears of beingContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: There Are No New Ideas (Audre Lorde)”
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RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Militancy Does Not Mean Guns Blazing at High Noon (Audre Lorde)
“We who are Black are at an extraordinary point of choice within our lives. To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us mustContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Militancy Does Not Mean Guns Blazing at High Noon (Audre Lorde)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Tokensim the Neutralizer of Creativity (Audre Lorde)
“And in the university that is no easy task, for each one of you by virtue of you being here will be deluged by opportunities to misname yourselves. To forget who you are, to forget where your real interests lie. Make no mistake you will be courted; and nothing neutralizes creativity quicker than tokensim. ThatContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Tokensim the Neutralizer of Creativity (Audre Lorde)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: BLACK Survival Skills (Audre Lorde)
“One of the most basic Black survival skills is the ability to change, to metabolize experience, good or ill, into something that is useful, lasting, effective. Four hundred years of survival as an endangered species has taught most of us that if we intend to live, we had better become fast learners. Malcom knew this.Continue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: BLACK Survival Skills (Audre Lorde)”
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