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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred
Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Abortion Choice Live Pain Struggle Women
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Against Battle Cease Difficult Live Love Remember War
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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