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Some 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

Audre Lorde

I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Believe Conquer Fear Goals Inspirational Job Matter Scare
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Bird Deep Fly Inspirational Tree
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
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Bury Heroism Liar Refuse
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
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Architecture Change Dreams Future Live Poetry Vision
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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Celebration Destruction Difference Growth Live Reason Recognize Work
If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Alter Beginning Die Justice Pain Protest Social
You are the one that you are looking for.
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Healing Inspirational Look One Liner
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Blind Deep Gratitude
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Anniversary Couple Forever Love Time Valentine
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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Black Lives Matter Fear Object Raise Recognize Structure Women
A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Abortion Choice Live Pain Struggle Women
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Arena Change Choose Immediate Responsiblity Stand

Some 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

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