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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."
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"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."

"Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness."
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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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