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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.

Audre Lorde

The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Against Erotic Men Women
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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Encouragement Hard Time Inspirational Time Work
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Action Angry Guilty Lack Response
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Against Battle Cease Difficult Live Love Remember War
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Beginning Choas Erotic Feeling Measure Sense Strong
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
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Celebration Destruction Difference Growth Live Reason Recognize Work
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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Empty Live Opposite Peace Spot Stars Women
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
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Act Believe Care Indulgence Myself Survival
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Black Lives Matter Consicious Each Other Habit Tender Women
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
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Flesh Hunger Mouth Reason Seek Shape
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Angry Energy Information
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Bury Heroism Liar Refuse

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