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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.

Audre Lorde

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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Duty Important Intense Pain Rain Speak Survival Truimph Truth
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Empty Live Opposite Peace Spot Stars Women
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Boundary Ethnic Oppression Women
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Ability Acceptance Celebration Difference Divide Equality Recognize
You are the one that you are looking for.
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Healing Inspirational Look One Liner
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Action Angry Guilty Lack Response
I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Believe Conquer Fear Goals Inspirational Job Matter Scare
In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Despair Love Lying Recognize
You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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Believe Fire Motivational Willing Women Empowerment
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Absolute Difference Economics Institution Necessary Outside People Profit Rejection
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Feminism Issue Live Single Struggle Women Empowerment
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Dismiss Experience Label People Try Used
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Against Erotic Men Women
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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Black Gay Hell Loneliness Remember Truth

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