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I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
Essayist
Feminist
Librarian
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
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We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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