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Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde (born Audrey Geraldine Lorde, February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was a Caribbean-American writer and civil rights activist. Lorde was born in New York City to Caribbean immigrants from Barbados and Carriacou, Frederick Byron Lorde (called Byron) and Linda Gertrude Belmar Lorde, who settled in Harlem. Lorde's mother was of mixed ancestry but could pass for white, a source of pride for her family. Lorde's father was darker than the Belmar family liked and only allowed the couple to marry because of Byron Lorde's charm, ambition, and persistence. Nearsighted to the point of being legally blind, and the youngest of three daughters (her sisters being named Phyllis and Helen), Audre Lorde grew up hearing her mother's stories about the West Indies. She learned to talk while she learned to read, at the age of four, and her mother taught her to write at around the same time. She wrote her first poem when she was in eighth grade. Born Audrey Geraldine Lorde, she chose to drop the "y" from her first name while still a child, explaining in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name that she was more interested in the artistic symmetry of the "e"-endings in the two side-by-side names "Audre Lorde" than in spelling her name the way her parents had intended. After graduating from Hunter College High School and experiencing the grief of her best friend Genevieve "Gennie" Thompson's death, Lorde immediately left her parents' home and became estranged from her family. She attended Hunter
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Sadigursky, Sam: Words Project II
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Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like The Rivers
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Poetry On Record (Disc 3)
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In Their Own Voices (Disc 3)
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Poem of The Day
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In Their Own Voices: A Century f Recorded Poetry (Disc 3)
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Poetry On Record [Disc 3]
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In Their Own Voices: a Century of Recorded Poetry
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Sister Outsider
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In Their Own Voices Vol. 3
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In Their Own Voices: A Century f Recorded Poetry [Disc 3]
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A Century of Recorded Poetry