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A Litany For Survival: The Life And Work Of Audre Lorde - Blog Posts

sisterhooddiaries
1 year ago
The image shows a close up of Audre Lorde's face as she speaks to her students. She begins, "You have got to go on--"
The image shows a close up of Audre Lorde's face as she speaks to her students. She continues, "--no, but you don't need me!"
The image shows a close up of Audre Lorde's face as she speaks to her students. She continues, "Don't you understand?"
The image shows a close up of Audre Lorde's face as she speaks to her students. She continues, "The me that you're talking about, you carry around inside yourselves."
The image shows a close up of Audre Lorde's face as she speaks to her students. She continues, "I have been trying to show you in these past ten weeks, how to find that place in yourselves."
The image shows a close up of Audre Lorde's face as she speaks to her students. She continues, "Because it exists. It is you."
The image shows a close up of Audre Lorde's face as she speaks to her students. She continues, "You have got to be able to touch that; to say the things, to invite, to court yourself out."
The image shows a close up of Audre Lorde's face as she speaks to her students. She continues, "And you can get together."
The image shows a close up of Audre Lorde's face as she speaks to her students. She continues, "You can do it for each other until you do it for yourselves."
The image shows a close up of Audre Lorde's face as she speaks to her students. She concludes, "Don't mythologize me."

Audre Lorde to her students during a poetry workshop, as shown in A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

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sisterhooddiaries
1 year ago
Audre Lorde stands at a podium accepting her award and appointment as State Poet of New York for 1991-1993. She is dressed formally in a colorful tunic. As she addresses her audience, she begins, "I've been asking myself, 'What does it mean to be a poet in a country where more money per minute, every minute, is spent on armaments"
Audre Lorde stands at a podium accepting her award and appointment as State Poet of New York for 1991-1993. She is dressed formally in a colorful tunic. She continues, "I've been asking myself, 'and we are supposed to be at peace, than is spent to feed the starving children in this country, never mind in the world?'"
Audre Lorde stands at a podium accepting her award and appointment as State Poet of New York for 1991-1993. She is dressed formally in a colorful tunic. She continues, "'Where the price of one stealth bomber, already outmoded, is more than the entire federal appropriation for all the arts in this country?'"
Audre Lorde stands at a podium accepting her award and appointment as State Poet of New York for 1991-1993. She is dressed formally in a colorful tunic. She continues, "What does it mean that a Black, lesbian, feminist, warrior, poet, mother, is named State Poet of New York?"
Audre Lorde stands at a podium accepting her award and appointment as State Poet of New York for 1991-1993. She is dressed formally in a colorful tunic. She continues, "It means that we live in a world full of the most intense contradictions."
Audre Lorde stands at a podium accepting her award and appointment as State Poet of New York for 1991-1993. She is dressed formally in a colorful tunic. She continues, "And we must find ways to use the best we have--ourselves, our work--to bridge those contradictions, to learn the lessons that those contradictions teach."
Audre Lorde stands at a podium accepting her award and appointment as State Poet of New York for 1991-1993. She is dressed formally in a colorful tunic. She raises both hands to her chest and continues, "And that is the work of the poet within each one of us:"
Audre Lorde stands at a podium accepting her award and appointment as State Poet of New York for 1991-1993. She is dressed formally in a colorful tunic. She raises one hand in front of her for emphasis and concludes, "to envision what has not yet been and to work with every fiber of who we are to make the reality pursuit of those visions irresistible."

A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

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sisterhooddiaries
1 year ago

Audre Lorde has become an inspiration for me with her words alone, absolutely amazing

The image shows a close-up of Audre Lorde's face. She begins, "Don't wait for inspiration, remember?"
The image shows a close-up of Audre Lorde's face. She continues, "Do not wait for inspiration."
The image shows a close-up of Audre Lorde's face. She continues, "You don't need to be inspired to write a poem."
The image shows a close-up of Audre Lorde's face. She continues, "You need to reach down..."
The image shows a close-up of Audre Lorde's face. She continues, "and touch the thing that's boiling inside you."
The image shows a close-up of Audre Lorde's face. She concludes, "And make it somehow useful."

Audre Lorde to her students during a poetry workshop, as shown in A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

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sisterhooddiaries
1 year ago
Audre Lorde sits wearing a yellow shirt in a white room with red flowers in the background. She begins, "I started writing because"
Audre Lorde sits wearing a yellow shirt in a white room with red flowers in the background. She holds her hands turned inward toward her chest and continues, "I had a need inside me"
Audre Lorde sits wearing a yellow shirt in a white room with red flowers in the background. She turns her hands outward and concludes, "To create something that was not there."

A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

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