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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.

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
What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Authority Fury Hear Moral Suffering Voice
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
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
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
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Afraid Feminism Important Powerful Service Strength Vision Women Empowerment
To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Pieces Refuse Silence
We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Growth Inspirational Powerful Survival Women Empowerment
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
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Angry Energy Information
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
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Creation Need Start Writing
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
I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Black Feminism Identity Lesbian Mother Poet Strong
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Beginning Choas Erotic Feeling Measure Sense Strong
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Existence Luxury Necessary Poetry Women

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