“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York Times

In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published.

These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to “never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is . . . ”

外来姐妹》介绍了黑人女同性恋诗人和女权主义作家奥德雷-洛德的基本著作，赞扬了20世纪文学中一个有影响力的声音。

"洛德的作品对那些真正对成长中的敏感、智慧和意识感兴趣的人来说非常重要。

在这本由15篇散文和演讲组成的书中，洛德对性别歧视、种族主义、年龄歧视、同性恋恐惧症和阶级进行了探讨，并将社会差异作为一种行动和变革的工具。她的散文精辟、坚定、抒情，反映了斗争，但最终提供了希望的信息。这个纪念版包括洛德学者和诗人谢丽尔-克拉克（Cheryl Clarke）的新前言，她赞扬了洛德的哲学在首次出版20多年后产生共鸣的方式。

用洛德自己的话说，这些具有里程碑意义的著作是对 "永远不要闭上我们的眼睛，不要闭上恐怖的眼睛，不要闭上混乱的眼睛，这是黑色的，这是创造性的，这是女性的，这是黑暗的，这是拒绝的，这是混乱的，这是......。"