“How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live
unblinded?
How much of this pain
can I use?”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
unblinded?
How much of this pain
can I use?”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.”
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“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
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“Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.”
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“Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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