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Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these difference...more

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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

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When we admit and deal with difference; when we deal with the deep bitterness; when we deal with the horror of even our different nightmares; when we ...more

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Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that t...more

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Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of differ...more

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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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Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each other, our works, our fears, our differences, our ...more

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As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who...more

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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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If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, ...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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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...more

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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 worl...more

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My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those ...more