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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.

Audre Lorde

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Act Action Language Silence Transformation
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
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
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
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred
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
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Black Lives Matter Consicious Each Other Habit Tender Women
The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Build Castle Children Deep Learning Love Nation Rise Sea Sense Women
You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Motivational Need Touch Work Hard
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Emotion Feeling Genuine Knowledge Path
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
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
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Angry Energy Information
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

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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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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