Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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