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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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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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September 25, 1952
Died:
December 15, 2021
(aged 69)
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