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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

Audre Lorde

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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Black Lives Matter Consicious Each Other Habit Tender 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
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Against Battle Cease Difficult Live Love Remember War
We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Growth Inspirational Powerful Survival Women Empowerment
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Black Lives Matter Education Expectation Human People World
The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Build Castle Children Deep Learning Love Nation Rise Sea Sense Women
Without community, there is no liberation.
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Community Liberty One Liner
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Against Brick Defense Future Guilty Serve Wall
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Angry Energy Information
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Done Inspirational Life
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Act Believe Care Indulgence Myself Survival
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
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
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Anniversary Couple Forever Love Time Valentine

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

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