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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.

Audre Lorde

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Celebration Destruction Difference Growth Live Reason Recognize Work
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Authority Fury Hear Moral Suffering Voice
I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Believe Conquer Fear Goals Inspirational Job Matter Scare
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Warrior Women Empowerment
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
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
In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Despair Love Lying Recognize
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
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Action Angry Guilty Lack Response
Your silence will not protect you.
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Black Lives Matter One Liner Protect
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Bury Heroism Liar Refuse
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Act Action Language Silence Transformation
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Face Oppression Woman

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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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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