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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

What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Authority Fury Hear Moral Suffering Voice
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Bird Deep Fly Inspirational Tree
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
Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Belong Conceive Future Inspirational Joy Ourselves
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 have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Duty Important Intense Pain Rain Speak Survival Truimph Truth
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Problem Share Women
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
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
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
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
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Bed Done Motivational Satisfaction Wake Up Work
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
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Flesh Hunger Mouth Reason Seek Shape
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise

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