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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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 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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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 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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Acceptance Believe Joy Learning People Rejoice Service Success
I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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