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“I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.”
― Communion: The Female Search for Love
― Communion: The Female Search for Love
“To me feminism is not simply a struggle to end male chauvinism or a movement to ensure that women will have equal rights with men; it is a commitment to eradicating the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels--sex, race, and class, to name a few--and a commitment to reorganizing U.S. society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion, and material desires.”
― Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
― Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
“There is always light.
Only if we are brave enough to see it.
There is always light.
Only if we are brave enough to be it.”
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Only if we are brave enough to see it.
There is always light.
Only if we are brave enough to be it.”
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“Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth.”
― Salvation: Black People and Love
― Salvation: Black People and Love
“Women will only be truly sexually liberated when we arrive at a place where we can see ourselves as having sexual value and agency irrespective of whether of not we are the objects of male desire.”
― Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
― Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
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