Quote of the day
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Audre Lorde
Born: February 18, 1934
Died: November 17, 1992 (aged 58)
Bio: Audre Lorde was an American writer, radical feminist, womanist, lesbian, and civil rights activist. In her own words, Lorde was a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet".
Known for:
- Sister Outsider (1984)
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)
- The Cancer Journals (1980)
- The Black Unicorn: Poems (1978)
- The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
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