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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

Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Problem Share Women
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
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
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
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 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
One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Aware Pay
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
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
In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Despair Love Lying Recognize
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Against Battle Cease Difficult Live Love Remember War
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Warrior Women Empowerment
Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Conquer Divide Empowerment Inspirational
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 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

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