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“For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt — of examining what those ideas feel like being lived on Sunday morning at 7 A.M., after brunch, during wild love, making war, giving birth, mourning our dead — while we suffer the old longings, battle the old warnings and fears of being silent and impotent and alone, while we taste new possibilities and strengths.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
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“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”
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“repeat after me:
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.
- except maybe yourself.”
― The Princess Saves Herself in This One
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.
- except maybe yourself.”
― The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“If the state and the legal system have an interest in maintaining a two-party sexual system, they are in defiance of nature. For biologically speaking, there are many gradations running from female to male; and depending on how one calls the shots, one can argue that along that spectrum lie at least five sexes - and perhaps even more. For some time medical investigators have recognized the concept of the intersexual body... Indeed, I would argue further that sex is a vast, infinitely malleable continuum that defies the constraints of even five categories.”
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