Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I…

Audre Lorde
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason. ✨ Audre Lorde (2000). The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company
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