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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.

Audre Lorde

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 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
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Bed Done Motivational Satisfaction Wake Up Work
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence 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 wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Black Black Lives Matter Corruption Destroy Father Man Power Racism
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 learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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Honesty Learning Listen People
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Beginning Choas Erotic Feeling Measure Sense Strong
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
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
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

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