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Audre Lorde
zij/haar1934 – 1992
Audre Lorde was born into a Caribbean family in New York. From an early age, she wrote about everything that touched her personally: social injustice, her Black lesbian identity, motherhood, love, and her battle with cancer. Her personality and poetry have inspired Black women worldwide.
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