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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
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I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.
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It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.
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There is a lushness to how my mind works.
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Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
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These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
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The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
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I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
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In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
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To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
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Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.
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