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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Audre Lorde

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Anniversary Couple Forever Love Time Valentine
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Against Battle Cease Difficult Live Love Remember War
It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Colour Existence Generation History Lesbian Struggle
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
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
To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Pieces Refuse Silence
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
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
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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Afraid Hear Silence Speak Welcome Women Empowerment
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
Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot

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