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

Audre Lorde

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
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Emotion Feeling Genuine Knowledge Path
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Empty Live Opposite Peace Spot Stars Women
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Afraid Hear Silence Speak Welcome Women Empowerment
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Afraid Deliberate Inspirational One Liner
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Conscious Deal Feminism Lesbian Sleep Women
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
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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Death Deep Depression Die Healing One Liner
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
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 transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Act Action Language Silence Transformation
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Act Believe Care Indulgence Myself Survival
The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Build Castle Children Deep Learning Love Nation Rise Sea Sense Women
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 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

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