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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

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Act Care Indulgence Myself Politics Preservation War
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Blind Deep Gratitude
I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Duty Important Intense Pain Rain Speak Survival Truimph Truth
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
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
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
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
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred
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
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Black Lives Matter Education Expectation Human People World
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Action Attempt Constant Dreams Encouragement Ideas Ourselves
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
How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Deep Life One Liner Sleep Struggle
Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Danger One Liner Powerful Women Women Empowerment

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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