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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.

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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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