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Audre Lorde

Nacido: February 18, 1934 – New York City, New York, United States

Audre Lorde was an American poet, essayist, and activist whose work examined race, gender, sexuality, class, and power. Her most influential books include Sister Outsider, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, and The Black Unicorn. She won the 1989 American Book Award for A Burst of Light.

Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor

Audre Lorde was born in New York City on February 18, 1934, the daughter of Caribbean immigrant parents, and grew up in Harlem in a household shaped by discipline, language, and racial tension. From an early age, she turned to poetry as a way of naming experience that ordinary speech could not fully hold. She attended Hunter College High School, earned a bachelor’s degree from Hunter College in 1959, and completed a master’s degree in library science at Columbia University in 1961. Before she became widely known as a writer and public intellectual, she worked as a librarian and teacher, occupations that reflected her lasting commitment to literacy, access, and public life. Her emergence as an author did not follow a digital path; her readership grew through magazines, small presses, classroom teaching, poetry readings, and activist networks.

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Your silence will not protect you
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought
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So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive
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I am black because I come from the earth's inside Take my word for jewel in your open light
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The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children
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I am fourteen and my skin has betrayed me
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There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile
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My mother had two faces and a frying pot where she cooked up her daughters into girls before she fixed our dinner
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