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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Black Lives Matter Education Expectation Human People World
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
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
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Anniversary Couple Forever Love Time Valentine
What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Authority Fury Hear Moral Suffering Voice
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
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Afraid Inspirational Service Strength Vision
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
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
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
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
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Arena Change Choose Immediate Responsiblity Stand
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
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Against Erotic Men Women
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
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

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