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“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”
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“We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious.”
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“These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through that darkness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling. The woman’s place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
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“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”
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