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Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.
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I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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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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Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.
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The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.
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We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.
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Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.
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Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, Black women have always worked.
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All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.
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To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness.
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