Having faced the specter of final silence—her own mortality—Lorde ... quote but whose self is impossible, in the end, to distill into a catchphrase. Black. Lesbian. Mother. Warrior. Poet ...

“I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these ...

Audre Lorde—first of her name ... to see yourself and those around you as whole with these unforgettable quotes. 1. "In a world of possibility for us all, our personal visions help lay the ...

The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is both a biography and a celebration of the icon’s life and work, which society has mostly ignored in favor of repeating her most famous quotes. Survival Is a ...

They spent the summer researching the prismatic afterlives of Audre Lorde and traveled ... the master’s house.” “Your silence will not protect you.” Lorde’s most oracular line, however ...

“Neither of us has forever,” Alexis Pauline Gumbs quotes Audre Lorde in her expansive biography of the prolific, Harlem-born poet and essayist. Lorde wrote this in a letter to Pat ...

In the third chapter of “Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde ... to underplay Lorde’s failures, whether in relationships or at times when she chose silence over defending ...