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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.

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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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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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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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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