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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them

Audre Lorde

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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Honesty Learning Listen People
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Boundary Ethnic Oppression Women
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
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Blind Deep Gratitude
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
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
You are the one that you are looking for.
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Healing Inspirational Look One Liner
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Emotion Feeling Genuine Knowledge Path
I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Duty Important Intense Pain Rain Speak Survival Truimph Truth
How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Deep Life One Liner Sleep Struggle
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
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
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
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Against Erotic Men Women
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Face Oppression Woman
I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Black Black Lives Matter Corruption Destroy Father Man Power Racism
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Afraid Deliberate Inspirational One Liner
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Celebration Destruction Difference Growth Live Reason Recognize Work
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Conscious Deal Feminism Lesbian Sleep Women
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Problem Share Women
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Apple Oppression
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Feminism House Master Tool
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
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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Believe Fire Motivational Willing Women Empowerment

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