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"When you a get a job you are not qualified for, it will be evil to you and to your community."
"Life is a game where fair players are winners! But as for the "injury causers", "red-card" sees their end off!"
"Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice."
"The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights."
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"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 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."
"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."
"But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women."
"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."
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."
"Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future."
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