Audre Lorde Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992
Birthday: February 18
Death: November 17
If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you gladly Nor ask more of you. You may sit beside me Silent as a breath Only those who stay dead Shall remember death. And if you come I will be silent Nor speak harsh words to you. I will not ask you why, now. Or how, or what you do. We shall sit here, softly Beneath two different years And the rich earth between us Shall drink our tears.
source: Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company
topic: Why Now, Harsh Words
