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"I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't."
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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."
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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe."
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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"
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"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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"The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me."
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"Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances."
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"The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions."
Trust
"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."
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"Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever."
Love
"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."
Work
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."
Freedom
"Black men are not so passive that they must have Black women speak for them. Even my fourteen-year-old son knows that. Black men themselves must examine and articulate their own desires and positions and stand by the conclusions thereof. No point is served by a Black male professional who merely whines at the absence of his viewpoint in Black women's work. Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves."
Empowerment
"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
Strength
"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."
Strength
"In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us."
Diversity
"Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism."
Quality
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