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Audre Lorde

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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Deal Evade Important Inspirational Pain Transcend
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
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
Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Danger One Liner Powerful Women Women Empowerment
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
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
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
I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Believe Conquer Fear Goals Inspirational Job Matter Scare
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Bury Heroism Liar Refuse
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
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
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
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Decent Life Live Love Management People Sweet Want Work
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
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
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

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