They Belonged In The Kitchen Analysis

1) I think Lorde describes the generation she was born in with the right words. Women, during the time Lorde wrote this, were only considered housewife material. "They belonged in the kitchen," as the old saying goes. For Black women it was worse than for white. They were considered maid material. Society, in a way, did reserved contempt towards them and therefore did not know what to do with them other than have them raise white children and cook the daily meals of white families. The way they were marginalized it is the demonstration of society's hatred.

2) I think this quote has a very poetic and descriptive language. I think Lorde means she has learned to survive as a Black woman yet at the same time she longs to escape that reality;