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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Audre Lorde

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Afraid Inspirational Service Strength Vision
Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Belong Conceive Future Inspirational Joy Ourselves
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Bird Deep Fly Inspirational Tree
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred
Our visions begin with our desires.
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Beginning Desire Inspirational One Liner Vision
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
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Warrior Women Empowerment
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
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
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Act Care Indulgence Myself Politics Preservation War
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
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 find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Aspect Constant Deny Eclipse Encouragement Present
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
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
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women

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