“Being women together was not enough. We were different. Being gay-girls together was not enough. We were different. Being Black together was not enough. We were different. Being Black women was not enough. We were different. Being black dykes together was not enough. We were different.”

This is an excerpt from Audre Lorde’s book Zami. The word “Zami” is actually a Jamaican slang word that translates to “lesbian”. Lorde proclaimed that “Zami” would be her new name and that this book was similar to an autobiography. This except in particular gives an insight to Lorde’s own thoughts and feelings about black gay women in society and how no matter how much she believed they were similar, there was always something about themselves as individuals that made them different.