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

Audre Lorde

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Alter Beginning Die Justice Pain Protest Social
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Against Erotic Men Women
The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Change Escape Focus Pieces Plant Revolution Seek Situation
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
Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Conquer Divide Empowerment Inspirational
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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Believe Fire Motivational Willing Women Empowerment
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
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
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Angry Energy Information
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.
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Believe Important Misunderstanding Risk Share Women Empowerment
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
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
I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Black Black Lives Matter Corruption Destroy Father Man Power Racism
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

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