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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.

Audre Lorde

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
To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Pieces Refuse Silence
I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Beware Magic Old Smile Woman
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Blind Deep Gratitude
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
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
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Emotion Feeling Genuine Knowledge Path
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
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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Beautiful Darkness Growth Hide Night Place Rise Spirit Weakness Women
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Ability Acceptance Celebration Difference Divide Equality Recognize
We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Body Feeling Information Knowledge Live Meditation Profound Recognize Source
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Bird Deep Fly Inspirational Tree
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
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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Duty Important Intense Pain Rain Speak Survival Truimph Truth

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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