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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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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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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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