Lorde also mentions that during her early life, she grew up with two other sisters, who were of a lighter skin compared to Lorde’s, which was “darker,” (Lorde 149). Lorde explains that she was jealous of her sisters because, “my mother thought they were such good girls, whereas I was bad, always in trouble,” (Lorde 149). Lorde also states that one of her sisters did not want her as a sister, “I have never gotten over the anger that you did not want me as a sister,” (Lorde 155). There is hatred and anger rooted to Lorde’s jealousy regarding the normative race. It is a sort of antipathy that not only occurs in a family but between complete strangers. It is exactly what Lorde talks about, hatred among themselves (Black women). She sets an example