"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

Life, Love, Fact, Meaning

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"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

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"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

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"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."

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"My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair."

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"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think."

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"There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth."

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"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."

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"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."

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"In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way."

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"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."

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"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

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