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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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 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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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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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