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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.

Audre Lorde

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 transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Act Action Language Silence Transformation
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
Our visions begin with our desires.
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Beginning Desire Inspirational One Liner Vision
A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Abortion Choice Live Pain Struggle Women
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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Change Escape Focus Pieces Plant Revolution Seek Situation
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
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred
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
Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Bright Darkness Deep Eyes Fire Inspirational One Liner
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
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Empty Live Opposite Peace Spot Stars Women
One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Blind Deep Gratitude
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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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Believe Important Misunderstanding Risk Share Women Empowerment

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