Reading The Uses of Anger

After reading Audre Lorde’s keynote speech The Uses of Anger Preview the document(1981), please respond
to the main questions from this text:
What is Audre Lorde’s response to racism, and when responding to racism, what are women responding in
anger to specifically? (278)
Summarize Audre Lorde’s examples of interchanges between women that underscore her use of anger. (278-
80)
What does Audre Lorde say that every woman’s anger, when focused with precision, can become? (280)
What can anger, expressed and translated into action, be turned into and what is it loaded with/what is it a
source of? (280, 283)
What is her message about anger and other women of color? (280-1) What is her message to white women?
(282-3)
How is Audre Lorde’s oppression intertwined with the oppression of other women of color? What should the
anger between them be used for? (284)
How does Audre Lorde define hatred and how is it different from anger? What is guilt a response to and when
does it become useful? (282-283)
When are black women expected to use their anger? (284)