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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Audre Lorde

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
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
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
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Bird Deep Fly Inspirational Tree
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Apple Oppression
It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Colour Existence Generation History Lesbian Struggle
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Body Feeling Information Knowledge Live Meditation Profound Recognize Source
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
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
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
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Done Inspirational Life
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
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
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
How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Deep Life One Liner Sleep Struggle

If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.

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