Andre Lorde’s Essay "The Master's Tools Will Never dismantle the Master's House" sends a strong message by telling her experiences as a black lesbian feminist who expressed her frustration towards the growing heterosexual white bias. She was mad that the only two black women who presented were found at the last hour and asked "what does that mean in the form of personal and political terms?." Lorde spoke about the need to embrace difference not just tolerate people who are different but to embrace difference. Lorde came up with an ethical principle to overthrow the status quo and asked "What does it mean when the tools of racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy?". And she answered "It means that only the most narrow perimeters of change are possible and allowable." In the "master tools" Lord is critiquing racism, classism and homophobic behavior and creates the vision of finding tools which could dismantle the oppressors' structure creates the possibility and is therefore empowering. 

This was one of my favorite explanation of women who stand outside the circle of society's definition of acceptable women, "...survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring out genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support." It's very motivating to read this and not have fear instead it come across as very empowering to all the minorities.

The message seen in Section III "And When You Leave Take Your Picture With You" connects with the anger towards white racial minorities liberals and conservatives enjoying a privilege in this society for being white and do not realize that they are enjoying such privilege and this makes minorities resentful against whites. "And when our white sisters radical friends see us in the flesh not as a picture they own, they are not quite sure if they like us as much". We're not as happy as we look on their wall" this message says white women should think again because "No one smiles... cleaning up after our radical friends... And when our white sisters radical friends see usb in the flesh and not as a picture they own, they are not quite sure if they like us as much" these quotes pretty much summarize the message goes to being white bias.

Lord's essay message from Borderland "How to Tame A Wild Tongue" talks about the importance of language playing a big role in establishing our identity and this essay is an example of how Chicano people struggle with communicating to individuals from other cultures. "Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?" this quote was meant to explain how Chicano students were required to take two speech classes to get rid of accents. I relate with this quote and message because I recall taking speech classes in elementary and I felt singled out since I was always told I was not pronouncing or speaking English correctly. It did affect me and up till this day I am always reminded I have an accent weather it's at home or work. One thing I did take from our class discussions it that we are diverse people and should appreciate the language you chose to speak it's a personal decision and we should be praising the fact that we know more than one language instead of always criticizing our accent.