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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Audre Lorde

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
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Act Action Language Silence Transformation
Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Danger One Liner Powerful Women Women Empowerment
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
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
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
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Warrior Women Empowerment
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Believe Important Misunderstanding Risk Share Women Empowerment
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Afraid Inspirational Service Strength Vision
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Apple Oppression
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Against Erotic Men Women
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Alive Eat Fantasy Inspirational Myself People Self Respect
The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Build Castle Children Deep Learning Love Nation Rise Sea Sense Women
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
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

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