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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

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I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people wh...more

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I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to make adjustments. The writing wa...more

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I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there wa...more

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I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ours...more

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I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work ...more

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Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I do...more

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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

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Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their children requiring them to answer two questions put to e...more

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You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right- that his judgement and o...more

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What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care whether Corinthians stood up or fell down? You've...more