“A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.”
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
“Always ally yourself with those on the bottom, on the margins, and at the periphery of the centers of power. And in doing so, you will land yourself at the very center of some of the most important struggles of our society and our history.”
― How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
― How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
“I'm not nostalgic. I'm looking back to mine the past for what it can help us with right now, and for what it can help us pass on and create. - Demita Frazier”
― How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
― How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
“And the way that Toni—I mean, people didn’t mess with Toni—you didn’t want Toni Morrison coming for you, because [she] knows how to use her words! She can etch steel with those words.”
― How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
― How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
“What counts today, the question which is looming on the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity must reply to this question, or be shaken to pieces by it.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
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