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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

Audre Lorde

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Human Poetry Teaching Theraphy Touch
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
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Aspect Constant Deny Eclipse Encouragement Present
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
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
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
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Afraid Hear Silence Speak Welcome Women Empowerment
Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Bright Darkness Deep Eyes Fire Inspirational One Liner
Without community, there is no liberation.
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Community Liberty One Liner
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
I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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Acceptance Believe Joy Learning People Rejoice Service Success
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Feminism House Master Tool
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Afford Destroy Each Other Enemy Learning Violence
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Expectation Extend Lack Oppression Understand
Your silence will not protect you.
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Black Lives Matter One Liner Protect
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

I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

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