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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.

Audre Lorde

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Feminism Issue Live Single Struggle Women Empowerment
I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Death Deep Depression Die Healing One Liner
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
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
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
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
Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Conquer Divide Empowerment Inspirational
To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Pieces Refuse Silence
I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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Honesty Learning Listen People
It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Colour Existence Generation History Lesbian Struggle
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred
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
When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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Encouragement Hard Time Inspirational Time Work
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
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Human Poetry Teaching Theraphy Touch
The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Build Castle Children Deep Learning Love Nation Rise Sea Sense Women

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