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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.

Audre Lorde

You are the one that you are looking for.
AUDRE LORDE

Healing Inspirational Look One Liner
Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDE

Deal Evade Important Inspirational Pain Transcend
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
We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
AUDRE LORDE

Growth Inspirational Powerful Survival Women Empowerment
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Black Lives Matter Consicious Each Other Habit Tender Women
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Bird Deep Fly Inspirational Tree
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
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
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Black Gay Hell Loneliness Remember Truth
Without community, there is no liberation.
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Community Liberty One Liner
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
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
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Apple Oppression
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
AUDRE LORDE

Human Poetry Teaching Theraphy Touch

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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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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