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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?

Audre Lorde

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
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 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
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Bury Heroism Liar Refuse
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
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
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
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Decent Life Live Love Management People Sweet Want Work
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
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Absolute Difference Economics Institution Necessary Outside People Profit Rejection
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Against Erotic Men Women
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Done Inspirational Life
We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Growth Inspirational Powerful Survival Women Empowerment

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