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"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."
Risk
"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."
Nothing
"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
"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
"There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists."
God
"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now."
Life
"It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it."
Time
"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."
Architecture
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."
Justice
"Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men."
Man
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"You can endure every hardship with hope."
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"How well you cross a storm of life determines your testimony about it."
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"She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone."
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Personal Development
"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."
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Personal Development
"Calm skies don't make skillful eagles."
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Personal Development
"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."
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Personal Development
"Stand tall like a tower of God."
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Personal Development
"The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength."
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Personal Development
"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."
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Personal Development
"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."
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