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"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."
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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."

"There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else."

"I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community."

"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."

"I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?"

"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."

"When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture."

"The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives."
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."
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