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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Audre Lorde

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Arena Battle Blessing Choose Manner Revolution Stand
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
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 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
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
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Decent Life Live Love Management People Sweet Want Work
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
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
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Conscious Deal Feminism Lesbian Sleep Women
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 I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
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
It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

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