The Boston Globe, November 20th, 1992
Of the cancer which finally claimed her life, Audre Lorde once wrote, "It is only another face of that continuing battle of self-determination and survival that Black women fight daily, often in triumph." Cancer, which dogged Audre Lorde for more than a decade, proved the only force that could still the acclaimed poet, feminist and essayist, who died Tuesday at age 58 in St. Croix. She succumbed to the disease after a 14-year battle, but never blinked nor bent beneath the racism, sexism and homophobia she chronicled and faced as an African American, a woman, a lesbian. She lived in the Virgin ...
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