Audrey Lorde believes that speaking your mind will set you free (Lorde 43). Not only is Lorde correct but the power of speech has made changes all through out society. In her essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" and the poem "Coal" focuses on the spoken word. The spoken word has been an important concept through out life. With out people speaking out, how would changes be made in the first place? Nevertheless several people rather stay silent and hold on to their feelings since they feel that it is pointless to be out spoken.
             In her poem the idea that stands out to me is that nothing is as it seems take "coal" for instance, coal is it just a dark little stone but when pressured in heat turns into a diamond. The speaker is trying to show that each word that is spoken is meaningful and has adds an important message to the poem. She is also trying to express that with each sentence she writes it conveys who she is. Now since she is being open with her self there is no reason for regrets in life. Lorde has an attention-grabbing way of expressing her points to the reader; not only does her diction flows eloquently but her rhetoric in her speech pulls readers into her writings. This makes her writing interesting to any reader. In the poem "Coal" Lorde address in the first stanza that words are like, "how a diamond comes into a knot of flame/ how sound comes into a word coloured by who pays for what speaking." (4-6).The speaker of the poem is comparing words to a diamond. This represents the beauty with in the coal coming out to the world. This diamond represents a brave person who is not afraid to show the exquisiteness of speaking out to the world. In addition it shows the changes that can happen like turning a lump of coal into a beautiful diamond. In the next stanza of the poem the speaker describes the magnificence of the diamond and how it glistens in the su...