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For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable ...more

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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

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Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is r...more

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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us t...more

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I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the word poe...more

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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression hav...more