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I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.
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What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.
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. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.
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Dare to look at the intersectionalities.
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The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.
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I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid.
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Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.
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While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism.
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We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our lives, systemically.
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there is no politically neutral art.
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Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves oppressed, no one would have taken them seriously.
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as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves
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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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Without justice there can be no love.
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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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Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
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It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
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