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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.

Audre Lorde

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Beginning Choas Erotic Feeling Measure Sense Strong
I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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Acceptance Believe Joy Learning People Rejoice Service Success
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Afraid Feminism Important Powerful Service Strength Vision Women Empowerment
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
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
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
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
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred
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
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
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
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
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
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
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Problem Share Women
Without community, there is no liberation.
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Community Liberty One Liner

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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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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