From 1991 until her death, she was the New York State Poet laureate.[79] When designating her as such, then-governor Mario Cuomo said of Lorde, ""Her imagination is charged by a sharp sense of racial injustice and cruelty, of sexual prejudice…She cries out against it as the voice of indignant humanity. Audre Lorde is the voice of the eloquent outsider who speaks in a language that can reach and touch people everywhere."[80] In 1992, she received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle.