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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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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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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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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.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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