Audre Lorde
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself...I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way...I can barely conceive of a type of beauty...I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art...I can only wait for the final amnesia...Vision is the true creative rhythm...
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