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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
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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Motivational Need Touch Work Hard
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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Action Attempt Constant Dreams Encouragement Ideas Ourselves
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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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