Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992)
“We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.” Born in New York City of West Indian parents, Lorde was educated at Hunter College and Columbia University. On completing a master’s degree in library studies in 1961 at Columbia University, Audre Lorde names herself as “a black feminist lesbian mother poet” and her writings from poetry to novels and what Lorde refers to as “biomythography”. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches explores the fear and hatred existing between African American men and women, feminists, or lesbians and the challenge between African American women and white women to find common ground. (From MCCchurch.org BHM resource guide)
http://www.glbtq.com/literature/lorde_a.html and http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lorde/lorde.htm
