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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

Audre Lorde

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Against Brick Defense Future Guilty Serve Wall
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
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
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Problem Share Women
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
Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Arena Battle Blessing Choose Manner Revolution Stand
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Act Care Indulgence Myself Politics Preservation War
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
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
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
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
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
One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Aware Pay
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
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

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

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