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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
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Audre Geraldine Lorde
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... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
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Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
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