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" Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. "
Audre Lorde
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" 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. "
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" Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. "
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" I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? "
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" I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. "
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" When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. "
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