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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.

Audre Lorde

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Flesh Hunger Mouth Reason Seek Shape
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
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
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Cherish Close Hands Pay Substance Symbol
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Afraid Feminism Important Powerful Service Strength Vision Women Empowerment
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
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
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Against Erotic Men Women
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Anniversary Couple Forever Love Time Valentine
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
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
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
For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Beautiful Darkness Growth Hide Night Place Rise Spirit Weakness 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
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Bird Deep Fly Inspirational Tree

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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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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