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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.

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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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 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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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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