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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.

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
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Warrior Women Empowerment
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
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Bird Deep Fly Inspirational Tree
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Dismiss Experience Label People Try Used
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
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Architecture Change Dreams Future Live Poetry Vision
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
One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Aware Pay
I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Black Feminism Identity Lesbian Mother Poet Strong
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
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
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

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