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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

Audre Lorde

I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Warrior Women Empowerment
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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Beautiful Darkness Growth Hide Night Place Rise Spirit Weakness Women
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
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Afraid Feminism Important Powerful Service Strength Vision Women Empowerment
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Believe Important Misunderstanding Risk Share Women Empowerment
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 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
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
If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Alter Beginning Die Justice Pain Protest Social
To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Pieces Refuse Silence
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
Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Conquer Divide Empowerment Inspirational
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Apple Oppression
You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Motivational Need Touch Work Hard
To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Afraid Beyond Myself Power Search Willing
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

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