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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Deep Life One Liner Sleep Struggle
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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