Audre Lorde

A classmate of mine lent me "Sister Outsider" by Audre Lorde last week. As I read her speech "The transformation of silence into language and action" I felt it was something I had been needing to read for years. It's for everyone who feels they must keep quiet, or even fights to keep quiet a piece of themselves. I think that maybe we all do this. I think that the better you are at un-ignoring those parts of you which you work to ignore, the closer you are to self-actualization, or self-knowing or true self-confidence.
Here's an excerpt, and read the whole thing. She wrote this speech after finding out she was going to die of cancer (she later survived).