If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDEPoetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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