The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

Author:Audre Lorde
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2020-08-02T00:00:00+00:00


January 1, 1986

Arlesheim

Today Frances and I hiked to the top of a mountain to see the Dornach ruins, and the whole Rhine valley spread out beneath us. It felt so good to be moving my body again. My mother always used to say that whatever you do on New Year’s Day you will do all year round, and I’d certainly like to believe that’s true.

It was very cold and sunny and bright, three miles up and back. The ruins rang with that historical echo and the presence of trials labored and past, although not as profoundly as the stones of El Morro in Cuba, and certainly not as desperately as the walls of Elmina Castle in Ghana, from whence so many Black women and children and men were sent to hell—slavery.



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