Copyright

Copyright © 1988 by Audre Lorde

Foreword © 2017 by Sonia Sanchez

Cover illustration © 2017 by Jen Keenan

Excerpt from “Paul Robeson” © Gwendolyn Brooks.

First published in Family Pictures, Broadside Press, in 1970.

All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

This Ixia Press edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Firebrand Books, Ithaca, New York, in 1988. A Foreword by Sonia Sanchez has been specially prepared for this edition.

International Standard Book Number

ISBN-13: 978-0-486-81899-3

ISBN-10: 0-486-81899-3

IXIA PRESS

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Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications

81899301   2017

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