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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.

Audre Lorde

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Celebration Destruction Difference Growth Live Reason Recognize Work
To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Afraid Beyond Myself Power Search Willing
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Black Lives Matter Education Expectation Human People World
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Boundary Ethnic Oppression Women
Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Change Construct Each Other Enemy Future Inspirational Possible Template
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Conscious Deal Feminism Lesbian Sleep Women
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Decent Life Live Love Management People Sweet Want Work
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
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Afraid Deliberate Inspirational One Liner
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Empty Live Opposite Peace Spot Stars Women
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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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
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Done Inspirational Life
Revolution is not a one time event.
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Event One Liner Revolution Time

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.

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