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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Audre Lorde

We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Arena Change Choose Immediate Responsiblity Stand
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
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Bury Heroism Liar Refuse
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
Our visions begin with our desires.
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Beginning Desire Inspirational One Liner Vision
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Flesh Hunger Mouth Reason Seek Shape
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
Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Arise Communication Knowledge Need Oppression Share
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Action Angry Guilty Lack Response
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Absolute Difference Economics Institution Necessary Outside People Profit Rejection
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
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Against Erotic Men Women
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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Human Poetry Teaching Theraphy Touch
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
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
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Feminism House Master Tool
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
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 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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Black Black Lives Matter Corruption Destroy Father Man Power Racism
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Cherish Close Hands Pay Substance Symbol
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
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Deep Life One Liner Sleep Struggle
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Apple Oppression
Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Conquer Divide Empowerment Inspirational

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

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