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Audre Lorde was born on this day in 1934 in New York City. Lorde described herself as a “Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet” who was dedicated to confronting oppression and injustice in all its forms. /1
#Voices4Victory
#BlackHistoryMonth
Audre Lorde was born on this day in 1934 in New York City. Lorde described herself as a “Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet” who was dedicated to confronting oppression and injustice in all its forms. /1
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Audre Lorde “Power”
“The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.
I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot
wounds
…
trying to heal my dying son with kisses
…
A policeman who shot down a ten year old
in Queens
stood over the boy”