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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

Audre Lorde

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
Without community, there is no liberation.
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Community Liberty One Liner
I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
AUDRE LORDE

Beware Magic Old Smile Woman
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
One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Aware Pay
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Bed Done Motivational Satisfaction Wake Up Work
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Apple Oppression
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.
AUDRE LORDE

Acceptance Believe Joy Learning People Rejoice Service Success
I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
AUDRE LORDE

Black Feminism Identity Lesbian Mother Poet Strong
Women are powerful and dangerous.
AUDRE LORDE

Danger One Liner Powerful Women Women Empowerment
We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDE

Aware Fear Past Present Romantic Seed
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDE

Against Battle Cease Difficult Live Love Remember War
You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Motivational Need Touch Work Hard
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
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
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

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