“…I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and to share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigating pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk through the rain.”
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Audre Lorde (1934–1992), African American lesbian author and feminist. Black Women Writers at Work, ch. 8, by Claudia Tate (1985).
Lorde had recently survived a bout with breast cancer, the disease that would kill her seven years later.
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