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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Conquer Divide Empowerment Inspirational
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Feminism House Master Tool
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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Act Believe Care Indulgence Myself Survival
To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Pieces Refuse Silence
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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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
Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Aware Pay
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Afford Destroy Each Other Enemy Learning Violence
We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
Our visions begin with our desires.
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Beginning Desire Inspirational One Liner Vision
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
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
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

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