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Dare to look at the intersectionalities.

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Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.
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My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.
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To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.
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I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out. Others are in prison. But in many cases they practice the teachings much better than those who meet me every day.
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Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.
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Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.
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Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
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Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism
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Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.
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Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.
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