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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

Audre Lorde

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Against Brick Defense Future Guilty Serve Wall
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Emotion Feeling Genuine Knowledge Path
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 have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
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
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
Revolution is not a one time event.
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Event One Liner Revolution Time
I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Black Lives Matter Fear Object Raise Recognize Structure Women
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Against Erotic Men Women
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Anniversary Couple Forever Love Time Valentine
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 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
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
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
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Warrior Women Empowerment

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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