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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art.

Source: My Words Will Be There, in Black Women Writers, ed. Evans, 1984.
-- Audre Lorde, (Feb 18 1934-1992), US poet, feminist; She won a 1989 American Book Award for A Burst of Light; poet laureate, NY, 1991.

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