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

Audre Lorde

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

Black Lives Matter Ideas
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
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Afraid Inspirational Service Strength Vision
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
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
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Feminism Issue Live Single Struggle 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
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Emotion Feeling Genuine Knowledge Path
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 want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Decent Life Live Love Management People Sweet Want Work
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Afraid Feminism Important Powerful Service Strength Vision Women Empowerment
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Feminism House Master Tool
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
Your silence will not protect you.
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Black Lives Matter One Liner Protect
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Afraid Deliberate Inspirational One Liner

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

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