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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Audre Lorde

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
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
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
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 only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Warrior Women Empowerment
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
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
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Human Poetry Teaching Theraphy Touch
I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Black Gay Hell Loneliness Remember Truth
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Arena Change Choose Immediate Responsiblity Stand
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Emotion Feeling Genuine Knowledge Path
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
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Afraid Deliberate Inspirational One Liner
Your silence will not protect you.
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Black Lives Matter One Liner Protect

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

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