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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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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