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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.

Audre Lorde

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Afraid Inspirational Service Strength Vision
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
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Alive Eat Fantasy Inspirational Myself People Self Respect
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Architecture Change Dreams Future Live Poetry Vision
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
For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Beautiful Darkness Growth Hide Night Place Rise Spirit Weakness Women
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
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
Your silence will not protect you.
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Black Lives Matter One Liner Protect
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
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Existence Luxury Necessary Poetry 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
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
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
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

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