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Francesco Clemente, Everything I Know, 1983, pastel, 26 x 19¼ inches. Courtesy Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York.
Francesco Clemente, Naso, 1983, pastel, 26 x 19¼ inches. Courtesy Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York.
MOLLY, MERCY, MADELINE,
MYRA, MAGGIE, MEREDITH,
MARLEY, MAGDA, MARGARET,
MINDY, MILLIE, MAGDALA,
MYRNA, MOIRA, MARIANNE,
MARLA, MAURA, MARIGOLD,
MEGHAN, MARY, MILLICENT,
MAITE, MAPLE, MITZI.
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Let me tell you first about what it was like being a Black woman poet in the ‘60s, from jump. It meant being invisible. It meant being really invisible. It meant being doubly invisible as a Black feminist woman and it meant being triply indivisible as a Black lesbian and feminist.
Audre Lorde
