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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

Audre Lorde

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
If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Alter Beginning Die Justice Pain Protest Social
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Angry Energy Information
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
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
To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Afraid Beyond Myself Power Search Willing
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
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Against Brick Defense Future Guilty Serve Wall
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Flesh Hunger Mouth Reason Seek Shape
How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Deep Life One Liner Sleep Struggle
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
Without community, there is no liberation.
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Community Liberty One Liner
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Warrior Women Empowerment
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time

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