“The good Lorde told us we weren't meant to survive, but we've always been good at going about our lives in factories and on our knees” PoetryPoemSurvivalBlack WomenAfrican AmericansBlacksAudre Lorde Book:Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Source: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019