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

Audre Lorde

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
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Different Feminism Freedom Woman Women Empowerment
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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Boundary Ethnic Oppression Women
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
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
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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Colour Existence Generation History Lesbian Struggle
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
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Problem Share Women
How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Deep Life One Liner Sleep Struggle
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
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Bury Heroism Liar Refuse
Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Deal Evade Important Inspirational Pain Transcend
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Aspect Constant Deny Eclipse Encouragement Present
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Authority Fury Hear Moral Suffering Voice

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