Alter | 58 Jahre (verstorben) |
Beruf | Bibliothekar, Dichter, Romancier |
Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 18. Februar 1934 |
Geburtsort | New York City, U.S. |
Todesdatum | Dienstag, 17. November 1992 |
Todesort | United States Virgin Islands |
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Beschreibung | Audre Geraldine Lorde war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Aktivistin. Sie bezeichnete sich selbst als black, lesbian, feminist, mother, poet, warrior. |
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
