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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

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Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

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People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.

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Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

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Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

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Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

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.. no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

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If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it is to imagine what is possible.

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Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

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Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

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White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or... and oppression of others.

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To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to
deny their feelings.

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The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

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Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

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To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

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Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

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It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

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We need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

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Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

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Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.

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The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

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Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

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Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

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No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.

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