Original subtitles

Fragment from a statuette of a black dancing girl.

Statuette which once supported an unguent vase.

Statuette of a black slave girl.

Right half of body and head missing.

Vase with neck in the form of a head of a black statuette.

A female figure with negroid features.

Figure's left arm missing.

FRAGMENTS FOR VENUS

Heraldic lion holding between his paws the head of a kneeling black captive.

A black nude serving girl carrying an ointment chest on her head.

Attendants bringing offerings to the burial.

A slave carries a jar and two dead birds.

Another slave who carries three fishes and a sheaf of wheat enters a tower.

Young female slave with negroid features carrying a stool.

Black woman holding pouch and basket or urn

above two geniuses holding garland.

Attendants with jewelry, sun shades and a mirror move from right to left.

Moorish woman pouring her kaoua.

Moorish woman smoking a hookah.

Natives in their quarters reclining.

Negress of Timbuktu.

Negress of Sudan or negress in costume.

Tinted Venus.

African Venus.

Dolní Věstonice.

Magdalenian Venus.

Ram Mal'ta Venus.

Venus from Laugerie-Basse.

Venus of Hohle Fels.

Venus of Monruz.

Venus of Willendorf.

Venus of Berekhat.

Venus of Lespugue.

Venus of Hradok.

Venus of Tan-Tan.

Thirteen ways of looking at a black girl.

Audre Lorde said

"We were never meant to survive"

Lorde said, "If I didn't define myself for myself

"I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive"

The Lorde tells us that there is no thing as a single issue struggle

Because we do not live single issue lives

The Lorde said, "I am not free while any woman is unfree"

The Lorde said, "When the sun rises, we are afraid

"When the sun sets, we are afraid

"When our stomachs are full, we are afraid

"When our stomachs are empty, we are afraid

"When we are loved, we are afraid

"When we are alone, we are afraid

"When we are silent, we are still afraid"

So the Lorde said, "It is better to speak

"Remembering, we were never meant to survive"

And because she knew that speaking was going to be uncomfortable

Because she knew that speaking was going to be hard

The Lorde tells us our speaking out will irritate some people

Get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt dinner parties

But then the Lorde said our speaking will permit other women to speak

Until laws are changed, until lives are saved

And the world is altered forever

But the Lorde also said

"The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house

"They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game

"But they will never enable us to bring about genuine change"

The Lorde said, "Revolution is not a one-time event"

The good Lorde tells us "There's only one thing more frightening

"than speaking your own truth

"And that is not speaking"

Audre Lorde said, "It is better to speak,

"remembering we were never meant to survive"

The Lorde said, "Your silence will not protect you

"So it is better to speak, remembering, we were never meant to survive"

We were never meant to survive

We were never meant to survive

Thus

Sayeth

The Lorde