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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?

Audre Lorde

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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Acceptance Believe Joy Learning People Rejoice Service Success
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
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
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Act Action Language Silence Transformation
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred
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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Human Poetry Teaching Theraphy Touch
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Different Feminism Freedom Woman Women Empowerment
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
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
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
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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Change Escape Focus Pieces Plant Revolution Seek Situation
We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Body Feeling Information Knowledge Live Meditation Profound Recognize Source
I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Beware Magic Old Smile Woman
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
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
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

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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