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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.

Audre Lorde

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
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Act Action Language Silence Transformation
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
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Dismiss Experience Label People Try Used
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Problem Share 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
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
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
To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Pieces Refuse Silence
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
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Arena Change Choose Immediate Responsiblity Stand
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
Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Deal Evade Important Inspirational Pain Transcend
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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Encouragement Hard Time Inspirational Time Work
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
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.

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