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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

Audre Lorde

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Conscious Deal Feminism Lesbian Sleep Women
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
Your silence will not protect you.
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Black Lives Matter One Liner Protect
Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Danger One Liner Powerful Women Women Empowerment
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
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Afford Destroy Each Other Enemy Learning Violence
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
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
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Apple Oppression
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
You are the one that you are looking for.
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Healing Inspirational Look One Liner
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Creation Need Start Writing
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
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
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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Arena Battle Blessing Choose Manner Revolution Stand

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

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