Introduction : create your own fire : Audre Lorde and the tradition of black radical thought / Rudolph P. Byrd
Pt. I: From Sister outsider and A burst of light. The transformation of silence into language and action ; Sexism : an American disease in blackface ; Sadomasochism : not about condemnation : an interview with Audre Lord / Susan Leigh Starr ; I am your sister : black women organizing across sexualities ; Apartheid U.S.A. ; Turning the beat around : lesbian parenting 1986 ; A burst of light : living with cancer
Pt. II: My words will be there. Eva's man by Gayl Jones : a review ; Self-definition and my poetry ; Introduction : Movement in black by Pat Parker ; My words will be there ; Foreword to the English edition of Farbe bekennen : Afro-deutsche frauen auf den spuren ihrer geschichte ; Preface to a new edition of Need : A chorale for black woman voices ; Poet as teacher-human as poet-teacher as human ; Poetry makes something happen ; My mother's mortar
Pt. III: Difference and survival. Difference and survival : an address at Hunter College ; The first black feminist retreat : July 6, 1977 ; When will the ignorance end? : keynote speech at the National Third World Gay and Lesbian Conference, October 13, 1979 ; An address delivered as part of the "litany of commitment" at the March on Washington, August 27, 1983 ; Commencement address : Oberlin College, May 29, 1989 ; There is no hierarchy of oppression ; What is at stake in lesbian and gay publishing today : the Bill Whitehead Award ceremony, 1990 ; Is your hair still political?
Pt. IV: Reflections. Audre Lord : my shero, my teacher, my sister friend / Johnnetta Betsch Cole ; Audre's voice / Alice Walker ; Lorde : the imagination of justice / bell hooks ; Remembering Audre Lorde / Gloria I. Joseph ; Epilogue : bearing witness : the legacy of Audre Lorde / Beverly Guy-Sheftall
