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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.

Audre Lorde

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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Colour Existence Generation History Lesbian Struggle
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Emotion Feeling Genuine Knowledge Path
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
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
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
Without community, there is no liberation.
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Community Liberty One Liner
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
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
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Black Feminism Identity Lesbian Mother Poet Strong
What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Authority Fury Hear Moral Suffering Voice
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
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
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
Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Arise Communication Knowledge Need Oppression Share
Your silence will not protect you.
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Black Lives Matter One Liner Protect

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.

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