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“The acceptance of our present condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children.”
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“In white culture, forgiveness is synonymous with letting go. In my culture, I believe we carry pain until we can reconcile with it through ceremony. Pain is not framed like a problem with a solution. I don’t even know that white people see transcendence the way we do. I’m not sure that their dichotomies apply to me.”
― Heart Berries
― Heart Berries
“The main reason is that the women of Combahee not only saw themselves as “radicals” but also considered themselves socialists. They were not acting or writing against Marxism, but, in their own words, they looked to “extend” Marxist analysis to incorporate an understanding of the oppression of Black women.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. How We Get Free (Kindle Locations 158-160). Haymarket Books.”
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. How We Get Free (Kindle Locations 158-160). Haymarket Books.”
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“I mean, to me, all the explanation that's needed is in the Combahee River Collective statement, about what it is we stand for, and who we think we should be working with. But as I have explained, the reason we used the term "identity politics" is that we were asserting at a time when Black women had no voice. -Barbara Smith”
― How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
― How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
“And, If I know anything at all/Its that a wall is just a wall/And nothing more at all/It can be broken down.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
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