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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.

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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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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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