Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) was an American writer, feminist, poet, and civil rights activist who devoted her life to challenging all kinds of injustice and oppression. 

She is widely recognized for expressing anger and outrage over the civil and social injustices she witnessed during her life. 

Her poems and prose primarily focus on themes like civil rights, feminism, lesbianism, and the search for Black female identity. 

Sharing her poem titled, “Love Poem” -

Speak earth and bless me with what is richest
make sky flow honey out of my hips
rigid as mountains
spread over a valley
carved out by the mouth of rain.
And I knew when I entered her I was
high wind in her forests hollow
fingers whispering sound
honey flowed
from the split cup
impaled on a lance of tongues
on the tips of her breasts on her navel
and my breath
howling into her entrances
through lungs of pain.
Greedy as herring-gulls
or a child
I swing out over the earth
over and over
again.