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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.

Audre Lorde

Revolution is not a one time event.
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Event One Liner Revolution Time
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
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
Without community, there is no liberation.
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Community Liberty One Liner
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
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Abortion Choice Live Pain Struggle Women
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Apple Oppression
Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Danger One Liner Powerful Women Women Empowerment
I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Black Lives Matter Fear Object Raise Recognize Structure Women
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Bed Done Motivational Satisfaction Wake Up Work
We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Aware Fear Past Present Romantic Seed
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
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
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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Face Oppression Woman
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred

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