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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Act Believe Care Indulgence Myself Survival
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Afford Destroy Each Other Enemy Learning Violence
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
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
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
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
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
Revolution is not a one time event.
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Event One Liner Revolution Time
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Done Inspirational Life
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
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Dismiss Experience Label People Try Used
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Architecture Change Dreams Future Live Poetry Vision
You are the one that you are looking for.
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Healing Inspirational Look One Liner
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
I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Duty Important Intense Pain Rain Speak Survival Truimph Truth

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