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“Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.”
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“Moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side a gesture of defiance that heals, that makes new life and new growth possible.”
― Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
― Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.”
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“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
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“Madness, not just physical abuse, was the punishment for too much talk if you were female. Yet even as this fear of madness haunted me, hanging over my writing like a monstrous shadow, I could not stop the words making thought, writing speech. For this terrible madness which I feared, which I was sure was the destiny of daring women born to intense speech (after all, the authorities emphasized this point daily), was not as threatening as imposed silence, as suppressed speech.”
― Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
― Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
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