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With grace alone, we are safe from condemnation, but we cannot experience true intimacy. When the one who offers grace also offers truth (truth about who we are, truth about who he or she is, and truth about the world around us), and we
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“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side”
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“...oppression is as American as apple pie... ”
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“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.”
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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
“I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they can’t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance.”
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Ashton’s 2025 Year in Books
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