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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

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
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
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Emotion Feeling Genuine Knowledge Path
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Act Action Language Silence Transformation
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
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
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
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Bed Done Motivational Satisfaction Wake Up Work
I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Black Gay Hell Loneliness Remember Truth
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
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
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
Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Change Construct Each Other Enemy Future Inspirational Possible Template
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
For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Beautiful Darkness Growth Hide Night Place Rise Spirit Weakness 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

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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