The Audre Lorde Questionnaire to Oneself
- What are the words you do not have yet? [Or, "for
what do you not have words, yet?"]
- What do you need to say? [List as many things as necessary]
- What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and
attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die
of them, still in silence? [List as many as necessary today.
Then write a new list tomorrow. And the day after.]
- If we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own
need for language, ask yourself: "What's the worst that
could happen to me if I tell this truth?" [So answer this
today, and every day.]