Zami

Excellent and evocative... personal honesty and lack of pretentiousness shine through the writing. Her experiences are painted with exquisite imagery

The New York Times

I came across Audre Lorde's Zami, and I cried to think how lucky I was to have found her. She was an inspiration. At last I felt I fitted in.

Jackie Kay

Zami is important because of its descriptions of growing up a black lesbian feminist in the 1950s, with open, unapologetic, vivid descriptions of women's relationships

Guardian

Her work is so quotable. It has the zeitgeist factor. Now, just as much as ever, we need the voice of Audre Lorde

New Statesman

I have an Audre Lorde google alert on my phone. It helps confirm how relevant my favorite black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet remains today

Huffington Post

Audre Lorde says it best

Refinery29

Lorde's examination of her multiple outsiderness pried my sheltered mind wide open

Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home (in ‘My Ten Favorite Books,’ New York Times Magazine)

Zami is just the best

Vice

Zami made me realise that I was not alone ... that I, too, could be as courageous and as loud with my truths

Elle Magazine

Zami feels larger than life - almost legendary - while remaining grounded, intimate and moving

Cosmopolitan

The truth of her writing is as necessary today as it's ever been

Guardian