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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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 wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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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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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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