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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 master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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
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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Belong Conceive Future Inspirational Joy Ourselves
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 feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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Motivational Need Touch Work Hard
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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