From Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Lorde, explains the harshness of her young educational experience and physical attributes that caused a challenges, obstacles, and meet unfriendly. Despite her disability of blindness, Lorde, obtains the ability to read at a young age with the help from a "mile-high woman" librarian. Mrs. Baker, the courteous, "quiet voiced", librarian that taught, Lorde, how to read and caused her to speak her first words, was the arm that pulled her away from the depths of feeling hopeless and with not significances. Lorde, speaks of Mrs. Baker, as the spring of life, what gave her strength and reason to move forward, to appreciate reading and writing. She was introduced to a new view of life. The discouragement and segregating practices of her shameless past teachers seem to have had no effect other positive results, she pushed forward. This reading introduces a display of various obstacles with overcoming results.