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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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