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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

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
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Angry Energy Information
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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Encouragement Hard Time Inspirational Time Work
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
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
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
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
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Blind Deep Gratitude
Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Belong Conceive Future Inspirational Joy Ourselves
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
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
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Afford Destroy Each Other Enemy Learning Violence
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
To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Pieces Refuse Silence
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Afraid Deliberate Inspirational One Liner
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

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