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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.

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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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 am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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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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