Audre Lorde, Grenada Revisited: An Interim Report, (1984), Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches publisher: Crossing Press, ISBN: 978-0-89594-142-8
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Weeks after the invasion, Grenadians were still smelling out and burying bodies which lay all over the island. The true casualty figures will never be known. No civilian body count is available. Even the bodies of Maurice Bishop and his slain ministers are never positively identified, no doubt to forestall any possible enshrinement by the people who loved him, no doubt to make the task of smearing his popular memory more easily accomplished. It has already begun.

— Audre Lorde on Maurice Bishop

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Weeks after the invasion, Grenadians were still smelling out and burying bodies which lay all over the island. The true casualty figures will never be known. No civilian body count is available. Even the bodies of Maurice Bishop and his slain ministers are never positively identified, no doubt to forestall any possible enshrinement by the people who loved him, no doubt to make the task of smearing his popular memory more easily accomplished. It has already begun." in the context of "Audre Lorde, Grenada Revisited: An Interim Report, (1984), Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches publisher: Crossing Press, ISBN: 978-0-89594-142-8" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Audre Lorde

About Audre Lorde

Audre Geraldine Lorde (18 February 1934 – 17 November 1992) was a black writer, feminist, womanist, lesbian, and civil rights activist. Her poems and prose largely deal with issues related to civil rights, feminism, and the exploration of black female identity.