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And there are so many silences to be broken," she wrote in "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action." She fought especially hard to create space for Black and queer women in that movement, to "bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. Through her activism and work-speeches, essays, poems, journals-she was a tireless revolutionary in the fight for women's rights. Over the next sixty years, she became an undeniable icon, a self-styled "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" synonymous with intersectional feminism. The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, Audre Lorde was born in 1934 in Harlem.
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