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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.

Audre Lorde

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Emotion Feeling Genuine Knowledge Path
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 transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Act Action Language Silence Transformation
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 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
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
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
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
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Aspect Constant Deny Eclipse Encouragement Present
I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Beware Magic Old Smile Woman
I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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Honesty Learning Listen People
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Afraid Inspirational Service Strength Vision
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
Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Conquer Divide Empowerment Inspirational
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Expectation Extend Lack Oppression Understand
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Ability Acceptance Celebration Difference Divide Equality Recognize

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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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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