“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.”

—  Audre Lorde

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), p. 38

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writer and activist 1934–1992

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