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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.

Audre Lorde

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
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Angry Energy Information
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Bury Heroism Liar Refuse
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Problem Share Women
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
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
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Bird Deep Fly Inspirational Tree
We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Body Feeling Information Knowledge Live Meditation Profound Recognize Source
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
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
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
Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Conquer Divide Empowerment Inspirational
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
One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Aware Pay
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Expectation Extend Lack Oppression Understand
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 been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.

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