Very interesting collection of various essays and speeches by Lorde. It covers a number of different topics - the US invasion of Grenada, visiting the Soviet Union as a professional writer, raising a feminist son... and such a broad range might be expected to come across as bitty or scattered, but the underlying theme of how black women and other women of colour relate to each other provides a compelling connection between the pieces. While Lorde spends time on the challenges raised by black women's experiences with black men and white women both, her main interest seems to be relationships between black women: how they are undermined, and how they can be strengthened. It makes for painful reading, sometimes, and confronting reading at that, but it does strike me as necessary. She's so angry, and there's such justification in that anger - who, in her place, would not be angry also? - that it demands a similar anger in us. Well, so be it. Anger can be a hugely useful emotion, and should be reclaimed as such.