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"Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms."
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"Analysis does not transform consciousness."
"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."
"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."
"The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware."
"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."
"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."
"And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it."
"There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness."
"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."
"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
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"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."
"When we admit and deal with difference; when we deal with the deep bitterness; when we deal with the horror of even our different nightmares; when we turn them and look at them, it's like looking at death: hard but possible. If you look at it directly without embracing it, then there is much less that you can ever be made to fear."
"Raising Black children - female and male - in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is as hard for our children to believe that we are not omnipotent as it is for us to know it, as parents. But that knowledge is necessary as the first step in the reassessment of power as something other than might, age, privilege, or the lack of fear. It is an important step for a boy, whose societal destruction begins when he is forced to believe that he can only be strong if he doesn't feel, or if he wins."
"But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it."
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