Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
TONI MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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All important things are hard.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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