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

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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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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
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
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Against Brick Defense Future Guilty Serve Wall
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Architecture Change Dreams Future Live Poetry Vision
We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Aware Fear Past Present Romantic Seed
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
Revolution is not a one time event.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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Colour Existence Generation History Lesbian Struggle
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
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
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
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
A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Blind Deep Gratitude
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Act Care Indulgence Myself Politics Preservation War
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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
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
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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