And when I couldn’t find the poems to express the things I was feeling, that’s what started me writing poetry, and that was when I was twelve or thirteen.” In other words, I literally communicated through poetry. What happened to you yesterday? And I would recite a poem and somewhere in that poem would be a line or a feeling I would be sharing. People would say, well what do you think, Audre. I would read poems, and I would memorize them. Of her poetic beginnings Lorde commented in Black Women Writers: “I used to speak in poetry. She attended Catholic schools before graduating from Hunter High School and published her first poem in Seventeen magazine while still a student there. Lorde was born in New York City to West Indian immigrant parents. A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
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