"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."

Work, Growth, Destruction, Difference

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"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."

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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."

Risk

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."

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"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."

Family

"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."

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"The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot."

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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."

Failure

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

Sexuality

"In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us."

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

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"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."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The world system is employment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Do not be weary to make money."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Work, Self, Identity, Values

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Work, Effort, Strength