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Oppression is as American as apple pie.

Audre Lorde

Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Expectation Extend Lack Oppression Understand
A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Abortion Choice Live Pain Struggle Women
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Act Believe Care Indulgence Myself Survival
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
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
Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Arena Battle Blessing Choose Manner Revolution Stand
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
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Blind Deep Gratitude
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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Arise Communication Knowledge Need Oppression Share
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Afraid Hear Silence Speak Welcome Women Empowerment
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Act Care Indulgence Myself Politics Preservation War
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
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
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
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
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Aspect Constant Deny Eclipse Encouragement Present

Oppression is as American as apple pie.

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