What is Audre Lorde?
[[File:Audre Lorde.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Lorde in 1980]] '''Audre Lorde''' (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was an American writer, feminist, womanist, and [[civil rights]] activist. She was born in [[New York City]]. Lorde was born almost blind and was tongue tied. At the age of four, Lorde learned how to read and talk.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lorde/life.htm|title=Audre Lorde's Life and Career|website=www.english.illinois.edu|access-date=2017-04-28|archive-date=2015-11-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121211926/http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lorde/life.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Lorde went to [[Catholic]] grammar schools. She went to [[Hunter College]] and [[Columbia University]]. She would say that “lesbian” and “black” didn’t really define her. She didn’t like being put in those categories.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde|title=Audre Lorde|first=Poetry|last=Foundation|date=14 February 2019|website=Poetry Foundation}}</ref> She was a [[lesbian]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lorde/life.htm|title=Audre Lorde's Life and Career|access-date=29 November 2014|archive-date=21 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121211926/http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lorde/life.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was famous for her strong poems about racism and love. Lorde died on November 17, 1992 in [[Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands|Saint Croix]], [[U.S. Virgin Islands]] from [[liver cancer]], aged 58.<ref>{{cite web|last1=McDonald|first1=Dionn|title=Audre Lorde. Big Lives: Profiles of LGBT African Americans|url=http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/aa-history-month-bios/audre-lorde|website=OutHistory|access-date=2017-01-01}}</ref> == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} {{wikiquote}} *[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/audre-lorde Profile and poems] at