Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDE
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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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