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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.

Audre Lorde

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
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Flesh Hunger Mouth Reason Seek Shape
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
I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Beware Magic Old Smile Woman
We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Action Attempt Constant Dreams Encouragement Ideas Ourselves
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Human Poetry Teaching Theraphy Touch
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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Black Black Lives Matter Corruption Destroy Father Man Power Racism
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
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Done Inspirational Life
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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Beautiful Darkness Growth Hide Night Place Rise Spirit Weakness Women
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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Encouragement Hard Time Inspirational Time Work
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Expectation Extend Lack Oppression Understand
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Decent Life Live Love Management People Sweet Want Work
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Against Erotic Men Women
I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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Acceptance Believe Joy Learning People Rejoice Service Success
How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Deep Life One Liner Sleep Struggle

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