Our Dead Behind Us Quotes

“Mother loosen my tongue or adorn me
with a lighter burden”
― Audre Lorde, Our Dead Behind Us: Poems

“I cannot recall the words of my first poem but I remember a promise I made my pen never to leave it lying in somebody else's blood.”
― Audre Lorde, Our Dead Behind Us: Poems

“What we share illuminates what we do not.”
― Audre Lorde, Our Dead Behind Us: Poems