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Divide and conquer — that's what they try to do to any group trying to make social change. I call it D&C. Black people are supposed to turn against Puerto Ricans. Women are supposed to turn against their mothers and mothers-in-law. We're all supposed to compete with each other for the favors of the ruling class.

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Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

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Tobacco kills 52,000 people a year from lung cancer, and there's no telling how many lives have been ruined through drinking. But to my knowledge, no one has ever died of a blow job.

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The draft is very new in this country, and a lot of people want to eliminate it. But as soon as women start talking about their rights, somebody says they should get drafted. It's as if men are saying, "If you don't let me hold the door open for you, I'll slam it on your hand.

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Loserism is when oppressed people sit around and think up reasons why they can't do something. Well just do it. Thinking up reasons why you can't is the Establishment's job.

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What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.

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The innocence of good people is inexcusable. Naivete is a luxury only the pigocrats can afford.

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Some people say they won't work 'inside the system' — they're 'waiting for the revolution.' Well, when the ramparts are open, honey, I'll be there. But until then, I'm going to go right on zapping the business and government delinquents, the jockocrats, the fetus fetishists, and all the other niggerizers any way I can. The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

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People always ask if a woman can be a wife and mother and have a career at the same time. Why don't they ask if she can be a hostess, chauffeur, cook, gardener, nurse, seamstress, social secretary, purchasing agent, baby machine, and courtesan — and a wife and a mother too?

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I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

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Most people are not taught to understand that the two o'clock orgasm leads to the three o'clock feeding.

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Niggerization is the result of oppression — and it doesn't just apply to black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized. Sure, there are differences in degree, but we've got to stop comparing wounds and go out after the system that does the wounding.

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You don't cure malaria by getting in bed with the malaria patient, and you don't cure poverty by going to live in the ghetto. You go to Wall Street and Washington and put pressure on the people who've got the cure.

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