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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

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Against Brick Defense Future Guilty Serve Wall
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
Your silence will not protect you.
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Black Lives Matter One Liner Protect
To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Afraid Beyond Myself Power Search Willing
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
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Bury Heroism Liar Refuse
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Act Action Language Silence Transformation
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
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
In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Despair Love Lying Recognize
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
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Boundary Ethnic Oppression Women
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Problem Share Women
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred

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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