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Analysis of Literary Language, Ballad of Birmingham, For much of the story…

- - - - "We tell the story every year- how we peered from the windows, shades drawn- though nothing really happened, the charred grass now green again."
      - Shows the importance of remembering history to avoid repeating it.
      - Calls the KKK angels mockingly
    - - This Poem can be read as a rallying cry for oppressed people to not let themselves die without dignity
      - "O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!"
    - - "Racism. The Belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance, manifest and implied."
      - Lorde talks about her experiences with racism and these real examples paint a much broader picture of her claims.
      - "Women of Color in America have grown up within a symphony of anguish at being silenced, at being unchosen, at knowing that when we survive, it is in spite of a whole world out there that takes for granted our lack of humanness, that hates our very existence, outside of it's service."
    - - Lorde was not invited to speak at a conference discussing black feminists and lesbians.
      - "To read this program is to assume that lesbian and Black women have nothing to say about existentialism, the erotic, women's culture and silence, developing feminist theory, or heterosexuality and power."
  - - - Roberta and Twyla fail to fully understand each other due to their racial differences.
      - They meet at different times throughout their life and they always make the same mistakes and fail to reconcile
    - - "I have never seen so much power in the ability to move and transform others as from that of the writing of women of color."
      - The story is framed as a letter to third world women writers, telling them to never give up in the face of opression and even highlighting some of their work
    - - Hong feels Alienated and discouraged when one of the only Korean therapists in New York rejected her without a reason.
      - "Racial self-hatred is seeing yourself the way the whites see you, which turns you into your own worst enemy."
      - She also struggles with self hatred and wonders if something causes other people of Asian descent to hate her.