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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
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
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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Black Black Lives Matter Corruption Destroy Father Man Power Racism
Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Conquer Divide Empowerment Inspirational
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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Act Believe Care Indulgence Myself Survival
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Bed Done Motivational Satisfaction Wake Up Work
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Warrior Women Empowerment
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Emotion Feeling Genuine Knowledge Path
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
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 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
Revolution is not a one time event.
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Event One Liner Revolution Time
What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Authority Fury Hear Moral Suffering Voice
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
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Absolute Difference Economics Institution Necessary Outside People Profit Rejection
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Angry Energy Information
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred
We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Growth Inspirational Powerful Survival Women Empowerment
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
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Human Poetry Teaching Theraphy Touch
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Different Feminism Freedom Woman Women Empowerment
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 the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Despair Love Lying Recognize
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

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