I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDESome women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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 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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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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