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My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.

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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation.

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The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

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My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.

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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

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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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