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"We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not."
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"When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly."

"Our head is designed to broaden our perspective regarding the world around us."

"A heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes."

"Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen."
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"It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it."

"But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society."

"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."

"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction."

"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."

"I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell."

"But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women."
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