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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

Audre Lorde

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Anniversary Couple Forever Love Time Valentine
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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Architecture Change Dreams Future Live Poetry Vision
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Alive Eat Fantasy Inspirational Myself People Self Respect
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Act Action Language Silence Transformation
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
Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Danger One Liner Powerful Women Women Empowerment
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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Black Lives Matter Fear Object Raise Recognize Structure Women
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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Alter Beginning Die Justice Pain Protest Social
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Bury Heroism Liar Refuse
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
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
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
Your silence will not protect you.
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Black Lives Matter One Liner Protect
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
The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Afraid Beyond Myself Power Search Willing

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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