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"If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")"
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"Learn the techniques to open the Power of Your Heart, giving access to the infinite potential possibilities that truly exist for you."
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Personal Development
"When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it."
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Personal Development
"It is only necessary to believe and begin to move forward toward the set goals."
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Personal Development
"Breaking through the glass ceiling is only possible if you are stronger than glass."
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Personal Development
"When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one deciding that you are not going to pour out your life anymore. You will no longer allow the school system or the work system to decide what you do with your time."
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Personal Development
"Love is the weapon of the wise."
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Personal Development
"Until we begin to discover and create value, purposefully and systemically, we are not humans but only biomass."
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Personal Development
"No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?"
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Personal Development
"Ladies, most of you have no idea how beautiful you are. Don't let mean words from an insecure soul blind you from the truth of your beauty. You are beautiful by design... just the way you are."
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Personal Development
"Ask empowering questions daily so your mind can focus on new possibilities and solutions instead of problems."
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"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
Strength
"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."
Strength
"You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements."
Fight
"Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests."
Woman
"There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else."
Family
"In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men."
Man
"Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men."
Man
"Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our refusal to recognize those differences, and to examine the distortions which result from our misnaming them and their effects upon human behavior and expectation."
Observation
"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."
Survival
"We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our safe corners mute as bottles, and we will still be no less afraid."
Activism
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