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Your silence will not protect you.

Audre Lorde

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
I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Black Gay Hell Loneliness Remember Truth
We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Action Attempt Constant Dreams Encouragement Ideas Ourselves
I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Believe Conquer Fear Goals Inspirational Job Matter Scare
Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Arise Communication Knowledge Need Oppression Share
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
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
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Blind Deep Gratitude
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
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
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
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
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
Revolution is not a one time event.
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Event One Liner Revolution Time
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Existence Luxury Necessary Poetry Women

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