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Lorde, Collected Poems, 101.
Lorde, Collected Poems, 140.
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This text is an edited version of an online presentation delivered on April 25, 2023 for a panel called “Nobody Was Dreaming About Me,” associated with the exhibition “When We See Us: A Century of Black Portraiture” at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.