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Quote by Audre Lorde

“I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers”

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Audre Lorde, an American writer, poet, and speaker, was born on February 18, 1934, and passed away on November 17, 1992. Known for her profound insights into race, gender, and sexual orientation, her work encompasses poetry, prose, and novels, which have had a profound impact on contemporary literature and social movements. more

“For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling”

Feelings Beautiful Spirit Dark Emotion Creativity Growing Weakness Tough Incredibles Nightmare Reserves Dark Places Chestnuts

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.”

Men Way Doe Body Wanted Earth Mother Father Share Mountain Men And Women Hills Strongest Valleys Mother And Father

Author:Audre Lorde

“If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.”

Ifs Reality Perception Can't Change

Author:Audre Lorde

“What I leave behind has a life of its own.”

Behinds