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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

Audre Lorde

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
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
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
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Black Lives Matter Fear Object Raise Recognize Structure Women
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
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Dismiss Experience Label People Try Used
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Problem Share Women
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
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Flesh Hunger Mouth Reason Seek Shape
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
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
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
Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Conquer Divide Empowerment Inspirational
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot

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