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Audre Lorde  

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  • Audre Lorde was, as she described, “a black woman warrior poet” who was born in Harlem and lived from 1934 until her death in 1992, after a 14-year struggle with breast cancer. Lorde was, in many ways, a survivor who worked to end the many silences in black women's history. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Lorde, Audre]

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